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Denns Biomarkt is expanding its pricing capabilities by adopting Mercio’s AI-powered competitive analysis platform. The organic retailer intends to use the solution to systematically analyse the pricing structures of its competitors and develop a comprehensive understanding of market-driven prices.

Monoprix, the French urban supermarket chain owned by Casino Group, has selected commerce media platform Criteo to develop and commercialise its new digital retail media proposition, trade publication LSA reports. The partnership will cover advertising displayed across Monoprix’s websites and mobile applications including sponsored product listings.

This month, French grocery retailer Intermarché is set to open a new automated grocery click&collect station using technology developed by Ouidrop. The new collection point will be located in the small town of Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, close to the Spanish border.

VusionGroup has secured a significant stake in Yagora, a provider of shopper insights for category management and shopper activation via retail media that is highly relevant to the consumer goods industry. Until September 2020, Yagora appeared as GPS Dataservice and made a name for itself in the industry with top customers such as dm Drogeriemarkt, Ferrero, Radeberger Gruppe and Kellogg's…

Carrefour is testing new shelf layouts in collaboration with CPG companies on its category management platform from In The Memory (Memory for short), which has been part of the VusionGroup since February 2023.

DIY store operator Hornbach has put Solace's event-driven real-time integration platform into operation. The solution from the Canadian specialist provider ensures that all relevant applications can instantly access important data, such as price changes, product information or sales data.

British supermarket operator Waitrose is trialling Shopic's clip-on devices for shopping trolleys for the first time at a store in Bracknell. Toby Pickard, Retail Futures Senior Partner at the British Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD), told The Retail Optimiser that, according to sales staff, the solution has been in use there for a few weeks. This is the first installation…

The independent Edeka retailer Paschmann from the Rhine-Ruhr region has equipped its self-checkouts in a first store with Diebold Nixdorf's Vision Recognition solution to prevent fraud. Its supermarket on Suitbertusstraße in Düsseldorf is the first store in Germany to use Diebold Nixdorf's Vynamic Smart Vision Shrink Reduction solution, which was originally developed by British start-up SeeChange.

Freiburg-based retailer and baker Johannes Ruf has installed self-checkouts (SCO) from Diebold Nixdorf in his new Beckesepp store in Waltershofen. The systems use AI technology to automatically recognise fruit and vegetables as well as perform age checks on restricted goods.

French retail group Coopérative U is rolling out the software solution developed by start-up Ida to optimise the performances of its fruit and vegetable departments. Starting April 2025, Ida tool will be available across all 1,700 Coopérative U stores in France.