Rewe Group

Rewe Group's subsidiary Lekkerland has opened a first Rewe Ready store at the EnBW fast charging park near the Kamen motorway junction with AiFi technology. For two other Rewe Ready locations, Lekkerland is relying on technology from Latebird and on smart fridges from the Portuguese specialist Reckon.ai.

Retail companies in the German speaking countries are already achieving efficiency gains, as demonstrated by practical examples of artificial intelligence at the checkout processes at Netto, at Rewe Group and in store layout planning at Rossmann. The use of AI in sales support and task management at M-Preis demonstrates how the technology makes employees’ work easier. AI also provides tips…

Self-checkout technology continues to grow in the retail sector. According to the latest report from RBR Data Services, now part of Datos Insights, more than 217,000 self-checkout devices were delivered worldwide last year.

Last week, Rewe Group launched a new distribution centre in Magdeburg Rothensee with automation technology from Kuka subsidiary Swisslog. Up to now, the retail group has mainly relied on Witron for the automation of distribution centres, whose automation technology largely operates without robotics.

Rewe Group is further expanding its tests of Pick&Go technology. In the Romanian capital Bucharest, the retailer opened the first store from its discount operation Penny to use Trigo technology.

Edeka independent retailer Pascal Gerdes is piloting the new Tomra R2 multi-feed reverse vending machine. His Trinkgut beverage store in Moers is the first in Germany to deploy the compact, wall-mounted machine. In future, it will also be able to accept returnable glass containers.

Edeka's Netto has automated the picking of produce crates at another distribution centre using technology from Finnish intralogistics specialist Cimcorp. The storage and picking system enables efficient storage and retrieval of crates, optimises the use of available space and reduces manual handling.

Rewe Digital is evaluating the use of hyper-realistic avatars in employee communication in a pilot project called Knowledge Avatar. Test avatar 'goRobert' helps with the onboarding of new employees at the Rewe IT subsidiary. The hologram technology from US provider Proto is supplied by the event agency Pave.

For a long time, it was the taboo subject number one in the retail technology industry. Whether Amazon, Tesco, Aldi Nord, Aldi Süd or Rewe Group: nobody wanted to talk about the question of how much manual intervention in low-wage countries is involved in the shopping processes in their scanless stores. Now it's suddenly in the public media: Has Amazon…

Rewe Group's Billa has equipped all of its approximately 160 stores in Bulgaria with electronic shelf labels (ESLs) from VusionGroup. In Bulgaria, Billa has installed the ESLs on rails from HL Display with the help of Display Bulgaria.