The retail technology week in numbers
Do you like numbers? Do you like retail technology? Then this is the article for you.
2,000…JD Super, JD.com’s online supermarket, has donated 2,000 sets of feminine care products to hospitals in Wuhan, China via JD Logistics.
$113 million…Indian food delivery startup, Swiggy, has snagged $113 million as part of a funding round led by South African conglomerate Naspers.
$20 billion…The global retail analytics market will grow from around $5 billion in 2019 to $20 billion by 2026, according to a new report from Global Market Insights.
2,000…Etsy has completed its migration to Google Cloud. It began the project in 2018 and has since moved 5.5 petabytes of data from 2,000 on-premise servers.
135,000...The market for self-ordering kiosks is booming, with various restaurant operators deploying the technology. As of June 2019, there were 135,000 installations globally, according to RBR.
£2 million…British startup NearSt, whose technology links products on shop shelves in real-time to nearby customers searching in Google, has landed £2 million in seed funding.
$1.4 billion…Singapore-headquartered computer vision and analytics solutions venture Trax has acquired Paris-based startup Qopius, which provides AI-based in-store solutions to the likes of Carrefour, Casino, Metro and MediaMarktSaturn. Trax was founded in 2010 and has raised $360 million to date, valuing it at $1.4 billion.
$20 million…HungryPanda, a food delivery service for Chinese communities in cities around the world, has closed a $20 million funding round led by 83North and Felix Capital.
622…Amazon UK warehouses have been hit by 622 serious injuries or near misses in the past three years, according to the GMB union.
$10 billion…Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change.
1 million…UEFA is to distribute over one million Euro 2020 tickets across all 51 matches via a blockchain-enabled mobile application.
$15 billion...Amazon is spending $15 billion on new tools to help third party sellers.
