Nomitri

The new self-checkouts, featuring a large, portrait-format display and an overhead camera, which Kaufland is currently rolling out across Germany, are also becoming the new standard at Lidl. They were developed by Schwarz IT in collaboration with the discounter.

GK has acquired Nomitri, a start-up company specialising in vision recognition. The Berlin-based start-up's solutions will be fully integrated into GK’s retail platform Cloud4Retail under the name GK Vision. Nomitri will continue to exist as a wholly owned subsidiary of GK.

Danish Salling Group is testing digital shopping trolleys from the New Zealand start-up Imagr in five stores of its discount banner operation Netto. The retail company is the first in Europe which uses the solution of this provider. The vision recognition-based identification of the products is linked in real time with shoppers’ smartphones.

Metro is introducing self-scanning with customers' smartphones in its wholesale stores. Software from start-up Nomitri uses visual AI and the camera of the smartphone to detect potential fraud and generate personalised offers.