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Sainsbury's is deploying software from Norwegian provider Strongpoint to pick food home deliveries from its stores. With the move, the British retailer aims to process customer orders more efficiently and accurately.

Australian retailer Coles is working with technology provider Northfolk to make menu planning easier for online shoppers. The Swedish start-up's platform provides personalised recipe suggestions and automatically adds the ingredients to the shopping basket.

Schnucks has equipped 22 of its grocery stores in the US with smart salad bars from Swedish specialist supplier Picadeli. Digital technologies and AI automate replenishment, optimise inventory and enable produce traceability.

In less than a year, Rimi Baltic, a grocery retailer belonging to the Swedish ICA Group, has switched its pricing to the optimisation solution from Revionics, a pricing specialist recently acquired by Aptos. This has increased sales of its 280 stores in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.