Hanshow

The UK market for electronic shelf labels (ESLs) has historically developed at a slower pace than other European counterparts. While retailers have been piloting the technology for decades, large-scale rollouts have often remained limited in scope.

Since last week, Schwarz Group has been trialling Hanshow’s ‘Smart Cart’ clip-on devices at its large-format banner operation Kaufland in Germany. The devices from the Chinese manufacturer were initially introduced at one Kaufland store ...

Tesco has signed a multi-year contract with Hanshow for the supply of electronic shelf labels, according to Retail Week. Within two years, the British market leader plans to roll out the Chinese supplier’s labels to all of its approximately 3,000 UK stores – across all retail formats. The rollout is set to begin at a Tesco Express convenience store and…

There was a jubilant atmosphere last night at Dr. Thompson's Seifenfabrik in Düsseldorf: top IT managers from leading retail companies such as Colruyt Group, Coop Sweden, Globus, Kaufland, Koçtaş, Lekkerland, Netto Marken-Discount, Rossmann, Sonae, and many more celebrated together with their technology partners.

Bartels-Langness intends to enable payment directly at the Snapcart system, which Bela IT developed in collaboration with Shopreme and Hanshow. A development by Shopreme will also soon enable customers to upload handwritten shopping lists onto the smartcarts.

Slowly but surely, electronic shelf labels (ESL) are also becoming widespread in the United Kingdom. With Lincolnshire Co-op, another regional retail company has now decided to equip 100 stores with digital labels by the end of the year.

For Belgium, Aldi Nord has chosen SoluM. The discount giant is currently still in negotiations with further technology providers for other countries.

British Co-operative Group is replacing paper with electronic shelf labels (ESLs) from VusionGroup in all of its 2,400 stores across the UK. This marks the largest rollout of ESLs by a single retailer in the UK and Ireland.

Kaufland is expanding the use of electronic shelf labels to its range of unpackaged baked goods. The more than 170,000 additional digital price tags come from two different technology vendors.

Aldi Nord has found a new CIO. According to Lebensmittel Zeitung, Oliver Tackmann, who played a key role in shaping DIY store franchisor Obi during his long career as it head of IT and logistics, is to become the discounter's Chief Information Officer.