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…
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The first Spar supermarket in Israel validates self-scanning purchases with technology from Bizerba partner Supersmart. Spar licence holder Amit Zeev plans to open ten stores within the next few months and a total of 35 within five years.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Aldi Nord plans to open a cashierless store in the Netherlands in early 2022. With the Israeli specialist Trigo, the discounter wants to test under real conditions how the checkout process can be automated using artificial intelligence (AI), cameras and shelf sensors.
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