Our most viewed retail technology articles from last week
These are the retail tech articles that caught your fancy during the past seven days.
Co-op brings Starship delivery robots to Northampton
Co-op is expanding its use of autonomous home delivery in partnership with Starship Technologies.
It 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.
RTIH awards celebrate innovative global retail tech vendors
RTIH has announced the shortlist for the Technology Vendor of the Year (Rest of World) category at its 2020 Innovation Awards.
Next at Morrisons collect and return tie up goes live
Next has partnered with Morrisons to trial Click & Collect delivery and return pods in the latter’s supermarket car parks.
Sainsbury's faces woke backlash over 2020 Christmas ad
Sainsbury’s has divided opinion on Twitter in relation to its new Christmas ad.
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RTIH Innovation Awards showcases stand out retail tech vendors
RTIH’s 2020 Innovation Awards include a Technology Vendor Of The Year (UK) category, celebrating companies that have developed innovative technologies and worked with retailers to transform the customer experience or back-end operations or both.
Four retail technology predictions for 2021
Nikki Baird (VP of Retail Innovation at Aptos) says these four retail trends were already on the rise pre-Covid-19, and now the pandemic will accelerate their adoption in 2021.
Rita Ora stars in AR powered EE iPhone 12 Pro campaign
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.
RTIH Innovation Awards: Startup of the Year shortlist announced
The shortlist includes Clekt, Trigo, Purple Dot and Uncrowd.
OnBuy boss Cas Paton talks 2020 successes and 2021 plans
RTIH catches up with Cas Paton, head honcho at UK-based online marketplace OnBuy, to discuss navigating the coronavirus outbreak, busting e-commerce monopolies, breaking records and going global.
