Sainsbury's

J Sainsbury has chosen SAP Retail as new merchandise management system for its Sainsbury's stores. With this, the second largest British retail company is parting with its Retek system after 22 years. The system was acquired by the US software giant Oracle shortly after it was introduced at Sainsbury's in 2005. Industry experts are surprised that consulting giant Accenture, is…

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…

Sainsbury's wants to handle all payment processes on the platform of services provider Checkout.com in future. In a first step, the cloud-based solution will enable payments via the retailer's SmartShop app.

Sainsbury's has become the first European retailer to rely on Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology. The British supermarket operator opened a cashierless convenience store in London using the competitor's solution.

Retailers prefer to use GK Software for new POS software installations globally. If restaurants, hotels and petrol stations are also taken into account, NCR is at the top of the list of new software installations globally. In the field of POS hardware, HP has worked its way to the top of worldwide installations, according to new study from RBR. The…