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Aldi Süd has now also discontinued its pilot project with a scanless store in London. The discounter’s test store on Greenwich High Road in south London will in future be operated as an Aldi Local store – without Aifi’s scanless technology. Aldi Süd had already ended its scanless experiment in the US back in 2024. The service provider there, Grabango,…

Netto Marken-Discount, part of Edeka Group, took an innovation-led step to make shrink measurable – without slowing the checkout experience. The discounter's deployment of AI-powered computer vision from Trigo has just earned Netto the Reta Award 2026 in the Artificial Intelligence category, with Trigo recognised as Top Supplier Retail 2026. But the award matters less than what the technology revealed…

There was a jubilant atmosphere last night at Dr. Thompson's Seifenfabrik in Düsseldorf: top IT managers from leading retail companies such as Colruyt Group, Coop Sweden, Globus, Kaufland, Koçtaş, Lekkerland, Netto Marken-Discount, Rossmann, Sonae, and many more celebrated together with their technology partners.

Amazon is closing all of its physical Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh retail outlets. Other retailers are also backing away from scanless stores. The technologies had fallen into disrepute after it became apparent that they did not always work automatically.

When analysing documented thefts in retail, Trigo found that 76 per cent of incidents were concentrated at self-checkouts. However, what was significant was how these thefts took place. In the case of high-value product categories, hiding was the method of theft used almost every time. It was not a missed scan or a barcode swap. It was those items that…

Lekkerland, the convenience division of Rewe Group, proves the maturity of its smart box concept based on AiFi technology with key figures from the 24/7 high-frequency operation at Frankfurt Airport.

Amazon plans to close all its 19 Amazon Fresh stores in the UK. The US online giant announced this in a blog post on Tuesday this week. This also means the end of Just Walk Out technology in larger stores in the United Kingdom. Competitor Sainsbury's had already replaced it with self-checkouts at its London Holborn Circus store in February.

Trigo is now also marketing its software as a loss prevention solution. The provider of scanless store technologies claims that using existing CCTV systems with AI, it can automatically detect discrepancies between picked up articles and those scanned.

Auchan has launched another Auchan Go in Hungary, its cashierless convenience store banner. The 18 square metres container-like retail unit is located in Budapest. It operates around the clock without dedicated on-site personnel.

MC Sonae has opened a large scanless supermarket in Leiria, Portugal. The 1,200-square-metre Continente Bom Dia store uses more than 1,600 cameras and 2,000 scales and AI from Sensei to track purchases, as well as refrigeration technology from Jordao.