Last week’s biggest retail technology deals
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Gap is rolling out Afterpay’s buy now, pay later service across its portfolio of brands, including its namesake, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta.
Online customers will now have the option to pay in four interest free instalments.
Amazon is expanding its Key by Amazon’s In-Garage Delivery service to more than 4,000 cities across the United States.
This lets eligible Prime members with a myQ smart garage door opener enjoy contactless package delivery inside their garage, and offers delivery confirmation by using the Key by Amazon app.
EE has tapped augmented reality tech for a new campaign starring singer-songwriter Rita Ora and actor Kevin Bacon, promoting the launch of the new Apple iPhone 12 Pro and EE’s Full Works Plan for iPhone.
Barcelona-based startup, Glovo, has launched a new business unit, Q-Commerce, which will focus on delivering the likes of groceries, toys, books, flowers and beauty products within cities in 30 minutes or less.
Missguided has announced a partnership with InPost which will see 180 of the latter’s UK parcel lockers branded with the pureplay’s visuals in the run up to Christmas and beyond.
Walmart is partnering with autonomous vehicle company Cruise to test grocery delivery in Scottsdale, Arizona.
As part of the pilot, which begins early next year, customers can place an order from their local store and have it delivered, contact-free, via one of Cruise’s all-electric self-driving cars.
John Lewis Partnership is tapping commercetools technology for its johnlewis.com site.
It says that it made the move in order to gain the scalability and reliability it needed for a migration off its legacy e-commerce-based platform, and onto a flexible API-first, microservices-led cloud service.
Bitcoin rewards startup Lolli has announced a partnership with Kroger.
Its users can now earn up to 1.5% Bitcoin back on grocery orders for pickup or delivery.
Currys PC World is adding more colleagues to its online offering ShopLive and Order & Collect service to cope with demand in the lead up to Black Friday and Christmas.
Having launched with 20 staff members in June, ShopLIve now has 800 experts to help guide customers through their tech purchases during the coronavirus outbreak, with a view to ramping this up to 2,100 by Black Friday.
LiveArea has partnered with Zumnorde to transition the German footwear retailer from a legacy solution and build and launch a digital store on BigCommerce.
