Morrisons

Morrisons has announced that it will add a Shop-to-Light feature to its product finder in the coming weeks. Customers will then be able to use the Morrisons Now app to make the electronic shelf label of an item they are looking for flash.

Morrisons has introduced Instaleap’s software for processing and picking online orders. Instaleap was acquired by Instacart in April this year. Morrisons is now using the solution to consolidate orders from Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo and to support its in-store staff with order picking.

British grocery retailer Morrisons is expanding the deployment of Vision AI technology to enhance self-checkout accuracy across its network. Following a successful pilot, the grocer has signed a long-term contract with Everseen to roll out its Evercheck Vision AI solution across 200 stores.

Waitrose is currently rolling out electronic shelf labels from the Korean supplier SoluM. The British supermarket operator of the John Lewis Partnership has now equipped more than 200 of its about 420 stores with the technology.

Instacart has acquired the Israeli company Arpalus to bolster its computer vision technology for shelf data in the grocery retail sector and also intends to use the technology in its Caper Carts, which are fitted with external cameras.

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.

Tesco is trialling Simbe Robotics’ inventory robot, Tally, in one of its stores. This reports Toby Pickard, Retail Futures Senior Partner at British trade association Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD). Tally moves autonomously through the store’s aisles to detect out-of-stocks, pricing errors and misplaced products.

UK supermarket chain Morrisons is set to roll out Ecrebo’s point-of-sale (POS) marketing technology company across its store network.

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.

Morrisons has decided to install electronic shelf labels from VusionGroup across all its 497 supermarkets in the coming year. In total, the British retailer has ordered more than 10.8 million labels from the technology vendor.