Retail tech deals and deployments: November at a glance
RTIH brings you the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from last month.
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.
Carrefour has chosen Pricer as its preferred supplier for new ESL (Electronic Shelf Label) installations and upgrading of stores that are already equipped with the venture’s tech.
Although the agreement contains no commitments with regard to volumes or amounts, the plan is to deploy the Pricer system in approximately 500 stores before the end of 2022.
Best Buy has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery across the entire US.
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.”
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.
M&S has announced the roll-out of its checkout-free shopping technology Mobile Pay Go to all UK [owned] stores.
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.
