Retail technology deals and deployments round up
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Checkout.com has been appointed as online payments provider to The Hut Group.
The deal covers the retailer’s MyProtein, Lookfantastic, Glossybox, Coggles and AllSole brands and over 200 other e-commerce sites in its portfolio.
Online homeware and furniture retailer Cox & Cox has launched Room Builder, powered by Hullabalook stickers technology.
French fashion brand TrueTribe is using SUKU’s blockchain platform to provide transparency into a product's journey from raw materials through to sale.
The first garments to be tracked in this way, clothes that began life as nylon waste such as discarded fishing nets and fabric scraps, were shipped to Browns Fashion in London during November.
Benetton Group has re-partnered with retail market intelligence venture EDITED as part of its upcoming three-year strategy.
With real-time data on over 140k retailers and brands, EDITED’s platform will allow the retailer to benchmark itself against key competitors.
It uses AI, analytics, and image and text recognition to understand pricing, discounts, assortments and trends across the apparel, beauty and homeware industries.
De'Longhi and Kenwood have announced a customer intelligence partnership with Uncrowd.
This will see them tapping the UK startup’s Friction/Reward Indexing analytics platform.
Absurd has designed and built a new global web platform for Umbro.
The Latest has opened a new experiential retail store in Berlin, featuring Cegid tech. Plans are afoot to launch further stores in the UK and China.
The 260 sq. m store features up to a hundred curated products, from manufacturers and brands around the world, ranging from hi-tech face masks to electric delivery bikes.
Photobox is adopting NetApp’s hybrid cloud infrastructure for storage and compute, as well as backup across three sites in the UK, France and Germany.
The Watches of Switzerland Group is using the Vee24 platform for its Virtual Boutique online video chat and co-browsing service.
Rackspace Technology has migrated the British Heart Foundation’s online gift shop to a VMware environment.
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