Netto (Edeka)

Edeka's Netto is testing hybrid checkouts that can be used both as regular checkouts and as self-checkouts in some newly opened and reopened stores. After a successful test phase, the discounter, which is part of Edeka, plans to roll out the hybrid checkouts in selected stores, where they will completely replace the conventional self-checkouts.

Equipped with a new version of Trigo's technology, the Rewe Pick&Go store in Düsseldorf allows customers to shop scanless without registering. However, the store's second major innovation, the automatic weighing of fruit and vegetables as they are picked, was out of action this week.

In the Bavarian towns of Burglengenfeld and Sünching, Edeka Group-owned discounter Netto is testing Wanzl's Hybridloc app-based shopping trolley system. The solution allows the shopping trolley to be unlocked either with a coin as a deposit, as before, or through the retailer's app.

Netto Marken-Discount pilots its new Pick&Go concept with Trigo technology in Munich. This makes the Edeka subsidiary the first German discounter to test autonomous shopping in live operation.

Consumers want more transparency. Product scanner apps for shoppers' smartphones are booming. However, the evaluation of a product can only be as good as the quality of the data set available in the app. It is worth taking a look at the cooperation between the French pioneers Alkemics and Yuka.

With Edeka's Netto, another German discounter is testing self-scanning with customers' smartphones. The team of IT Managing Director Claus Leitl deliberately relies on a proprietary development that is fully integrated into Netto's customer app.

With immediate effect, both retail companies and their technology partners can submit applications for Reta Europe 2021.