VusionGroup

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.

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.

Slowly but surely, electronic shelf labels (ESL) are also becoming widespread in the United Kingdom. With Lincolnshire Co-op, another regional retail company has now decided to equip 100 stores with digital labels by the end of the year.

VusionGroup has secured a significant stake in Yagora, a provider of shopper insights for category management and shopper activation via retail media that is highly relevant to the consumer goods industry. Until September 2020, Yagora appeared as GPS Dataservice and made a name for itself in the industry with top customers such as dm Drogeriemarkt, Ferrero, Radeberger Gruppe and Kellogg's…

Germany's leading drugstore operator dm is the second retail company worldwide after Walmart to opt for VusionGroup's innovative EdgeSense shelf label technology.

Carrefour is testing new shelf layouts in collaboration with CPG companies on its category management platform from In The Memory (Memory for short), which has been part of the VusionGroup since February 2023.

Morrisons has decided to install electronic shelf labels from VusionGroup across all its 497 supermarkets in the coming year. In total, the British retailer has ordered more than 10.8 million labels from the technology vendor.

Asda is deploying VusionGroup’s electronic shelf labels (ESLs) across more than 250 of its newest Express convenience stores to improve operational efficiency and on-shelf availability. Asda plans to launch up to 20 new Express stores before the end of this year.

For Belgium, Aldi Nord has chosen SoluM. The discount giant is currently still in negotiations with further technology providers for other countries.

With its Connected Store in GS1 Germany's Knowledge Centre, VusionGroup demonstrates how its technology optimises brick-and-mortar retail through the interaction of real-time data, AI and IoT.