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French retail group Les Mousquetaires plans to implement Diebold Nixdorf's fraud prevention software at self-checkout terminals in its full-range banner operation Intermarché. The technology detects unintentional operator errors and fraudulent transactions at self-checkout terminals, increasing operational efficiency and improving the checkout process for customers and staff. The decision to implement the software followed a successful trial period at a Intermarché…

French retail group Les Mousquetaires is testing Shopic's clip-on devices in an Intermarché store in Provins, France. The devices, which can be easily attached to any standard trolley, is powered by computer vision technology, transforming it into a smart cart capable of recognising items without the need for manual scanning. Consultants of Capgemini are part of the project team at…

Aldi Süd is testing a digital shopping trolley from Caper, which was aquired by quick service provider Instacart in 2021, at its Austrian country unit Hofer.

Four grocery retail giants are currently working together to find innovations in the field of retail technology with their Disrupt Retail initiative. Disrupt Retail was first launched in 2017 by Portuguese grocery retail market leader MC Sonae, which owns the Continente distribution lines, as a call for technology start-ups.

Israels leading grocery retailer Shufersal has decided to rollout Shopic`s smart cart solution across its store network. “Over time, they are planning to equip all 200 stores with 800 square meters or more with our solution”, Raz Golan, CEO and Co-Founder of Shopic, told The Retail Optimiser at Euroshop in Düsseldorf. For the project, Shufersal was awarded with one of…

For the 16th time, EHI Retail Institute this week announced the winners of the Retail Technology Awards Reta. The eight-member international jury of the award includes Retail Optimiser editors Björn Weber and Joachim Pinhammer as well as the publisher of the British trade magazine Retail Technology, Miya Knights.

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.

Edeka's Netto Marken-Discount was able to secure two prizes at EHI's Reta Awards 2022, the winners of which were announced today. The teams around Netto CIO Claus Leitl won firstly with their Pick&Go branch in Munich's Schwabing district. They won a second prize together with Tiliter for the automatic recognition of products without barcodes such as fruit and vegetables.

Aldi Süd has launched a just-walk-out store in London on a trial basis. The technology comes most likely from Californian specialist AiFi, with whom Aldi Süd has been testing for several months.

In Australia, Aldi Süd is testing automated recognition of products placed in shopping trolleys using technology from Israeli start-up Shopic. The solution, which eliminates the need for scanning at the checkout, is so exciting, that the company had also installed it for a short period of time in its innovations store near its headquarters in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.