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Using Vusion’s Edgesense technology, Walmart helps its customers find products on the shelves ...

Walmart is to pilot an automated micro-fulfilment centre system based on technology from Symbotic within one of its superstore’s backroom at an undisclosed location. The prototype will be operational in a few months with a second site reportedly in the pipeline.

The Finiper retail group is rolling out more than 700 Datalogic Joya smart handheld scanners across five of its Iper La Grande i stores in northern Italy. With this move, the Italian retailer is scaling up a self-scanning solution that customers continue to use as a portable handheld device, but which, for the first time, can also monitor shopping trolleys…

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.

Drugstore operator dm is testing the processing of two-dimensional codes at the checkout in selected stores. The pilot project is set to provide important insights for the planned gradual replacement of barcodes with 2D codes using the new GS1 Digital Link standard. Beiersdorf's 8X4 brand deodorants are among the first products to be labelled according to the new identification standard.

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.

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.

Both Walmart and Carrefour announced this week that they are joining Google's new standard for agentic commerce, the Universal Commerce Protocol (UPC). The technology allows consumers to purchase products directly on Google's Gemini AI platform, for example, without having to switch to the retailer's website. At the NRF conference, which took place in New York City this week, Google Cloud…

Kroger Precision Marketing, the retail media and advertising division of US-American retailer Kroger, has unveiled a series of enhancements to its proprietary data platform. These focus on advanced automation, applied artificial intelligence and expanded self-service capabilities.

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