November 2020: top 10 most clicked retail tech articles

These are the RTIH articles that caught your fancy during November.

Morrisons offers teachers 10 per cent discount amid coronavirus outbreak

Morrisons has become the first major UK supermarket to announce a shopping discount (10%) for teachers and school staff.

Recognising their efforts in keeping schools open during the coronavirus pandemic and ensuring key workers with children can continue to work, this will run until 3rd January 2021.

Sainsbury's faces woke backlash over 2020 Christmas ad

Sainsbury’s has divided opinion on Twitter in relation to its new Christmas ad.

RTIH awards celebrate innovative global retail tech vendors

RTIH has announced the shortlist for the Technology Vendor of the Year (Rest of World) of its 2020 Innovation Awards.

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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.

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.

There ain’t no party like an Aldi UK 30th birthday party

Aldi UK recently celebrated its 30th birthday on Twitter. And it was epic.

Asda Stevenage store installs electronic shelf edge labelling tech

Asda has rolled out an electronic shelf edge labelling (eSEL) solution at its Stevenage innovation store.

James Sands, Project Manager - Tech Store at Asda, said in a LinkedIn post: “It’s taken just over a year and has probably been the most challenging project I’ve delivered, but after five nights of installing we now have a fully integrated eSEL solution across 22,000 lines in our innovation store.”

Missguided and InPost launch parcel locker takeover

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.

The aim is to raise awareness of this contact-free delivery and returns option.