Schwarz Group

Lidl is the first grocery retailer in Germany to offer Wero as an e-commerce payment method.

Aldi Nord is continuing to test loyalty features in its customer app in Belgium, even though the company generally rules out app discounts and different prices for different customers. In a joint press release issued today for Germany, Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd have stated that they are committed to a standard Aldi price for everyone and are therefore not…

Schwarz Group and one of the Co-CEOs of Schwarz Digits are parting ways with immediate effect. Rolf Schumann has left the company after seven years. Christian Müller, previously also a Co-CEO, is taking sole overall responsibility for the Schwarz Group’s digital division.

Since last week, Schwarz Group has been trialling Hanshow’s ‘Smart Cart’ clip-on devices at its large-format banner operation Kaufland in Germany. The devices from the Chinese manufacturer were initially introduced at one Kaufland store ...

Lidl has integrated a grocery ordering feature into its Lidl Plus App in Ireland. It is not designed for home delivery of groceries, but only for ordering for collection from the car parks of its stores. This reports Lebensmittel Zeitung today.

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.

Kaufland’s International Auditing Department has developed an app with AI to make its freshness checks more efficient. The application helps the auditors of Schwarz Group’s subsidiary to check the internal processes of the stores in order to ensure customer satisfaction. The fact that specialist departments are developing solutions themselves using standard AI tools has the potential to shake up the…

Alex Schwald will take on the position of Senior Director of IT at Takko Fashion, The Retail Optimiser learnt. He is moving from MediaMarktSaturn to the radically verticalised fashion retailer. His exact start date is not yet clear but will be in February or March 2026.

Lidl is equipping its fruit and vegetable departments with camera-based, AI-supported scales from Mettler Toledo that automatically recognise loose items. With this step, Schwarz Group's discount retail division is promoting a seamless self-scanning journey for its customers in the fresh produce department. Lidl has already equipped around 250 stores across Germany with two scales per store in most case.

DIY store operator Hornbach has put Solace's event-driven real-time integration platform into operation. The solution from the Canadian specialist provider ensures that all relevant applications can instantly access important data, such as price changes, product information or sales data.