Retail technology deals and deployments: last week at a glance
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Nectar360, part of Sainsbury’s, is working with CitrusAd on a platform that enables brands and ad agencies to launch targeted sponsored product, banner advertising and reporting and analytics across Sainsburys.co.uk.
Bitcoin rewards startup Lolli has announced a partnership with eBay ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Its users can now earn 1% back in Bitcoin when they shop from eBay’s marketplace.
French fashion venture the Beaumanoir Group has chosen Cegid’s cloud-based unified commerce platform to equip the recently acquired apparel retail chain, La Halle, with omnichannel and PoS technologies.
Online fashion and lifestyle platform Zalando has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider.
It is tapping the company’s machine learning tech as it looks to “innovate faster and redefine the online shopping experience”.
Co-op is expanding its use of autonomous home delivery in partnership with Starship Technologies.
Co-op plans to use around 300 of Starship’s robots by the end of 2021 as it looks for more towns and cities to operate autonomous deliveries after launching in Milton Keynes, and now Northampton.
Russian retailer X5 will open around 50 cashierless Pyaterochka proximity stores next year and create its own payment system.
