Obi will install 2600 large-format displays on pedestals in the aisles of its stores. The first 1000 of these 55-inch displays are set to be installed this year — in company-owned stores across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Cologne-based company Ben Hur, which specializes in large digital advertising screens, will supply and commission the pedestals.
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Vusion is the global leader in AI-powered digitalization solutions for physical commerce, serving over 350 major retail groups in the world.
The company develops technologies that combine IoT, data, cloud and artificial intelligence to enable AI-native stores and power connected commerce. Vusion helps retailers transform physical stores into intelligent, efficient and adaptive environments, improving operational excellence, enabling local e-Commerce, delivering data-driven commerce, and activating in-store retail media and shopper experiences.
With an integrated ecosystem built on three complementary layers (Vusion Intelligence, Vusion Connect and Vusion IoT), Vusion delivers the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for retail, turning real-time store signals into actionable insights and measurable performance at scale.
A pioneer of Positive Commerce, Vusion is committed to building a more sustainable, transparent, and human-centered retail future. The company supports the United Nations Global Compact initiative and has received a Platinum Sustainability Rating from EcoVadis, the world’s reference for business sustainability ratings.
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Walmart de México y Centroamérica is accelerating the digital transformation of its stores by implementing technology from Vusion. The company plans to fully equip its Walmart Express stores with the EdgeSense connected-store platform by the end of the year.
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Lengermann & Trieschmann (L&T), a premium fashion and sports retailer in Germany, has brought smart hangtags and AI-based price optimisation into regular operation. Since September 2025, the Osnabrück-based company has been dynamically managing its sales prices with GK Air.
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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.
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Carrefour will introduce Vusion's platform in all of its hypermarkets and supermarkets in France. The French retail giant will be the third major retailer after Walmart in the United States and dm Drogeriemarkt in Germany to use Vusion's EdgeSense technology.
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Belgian non-food retailer Extra Shop is digitally transforming its stores and will be using Vusion's platform and electronic shelf labels in the future. With the company's decision to introduce the solutions in 40 of its stores, the number of Belgian retailers using Vusion has risen to a total of 1,700.
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Spar Austria aims to operate its digital services on a uniform platform. To this end, the group’s in-house IT department Spar ICS has set up project Snowball. It is set to migrate business-critical applications to the geo-redundant Platform as a Service (PaaS) HPE Greenlake. The cloud platform from Hewlett Packard Enterprise will gradually replace Spar’s existing data centre infrastructure. The…
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Kesko Senukai will equip all 94 of its Senukai-DIY stores with electronic shelf labels from Vusion. The leading DIY retailer in the three Baltic states, which is operated as a joint venture between Finnish retail giant Kesko and the Rakauskas family, is also testing Vusion's Captana solution for automatic inventory control using shelf cameras and computer vision.
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With the rebranding to Vusion (without “Group”), the specialist for the digitalisation of physical retail outlets wants to herald a new era: instead of just implementing the Connected Store as before, Vusion now wants to enable retailers to create the AI-native Store.
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DIY retailer Obi has introduced electronic shelf price labels from VusionGroup in selected product ranges in around 200 of its German stores. The introduction is part of an extensive digitalisation project of the DIY retailer, which also includes the introduction of McKinsey's Periscope price optimisation solution.
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