Last week’s biggest retail technology plays

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deployments and pilots from the past seven days.

Fashion and lifestyle brand hush has launched a new e-commerce website, built on the Salesforce Cloud platform.

Autonomous robotics startup Nuro is to test delivery of prescriptions and essentials in Houston, Texas through a partnership with CVS Pharmacy.

US startup Lolli has announced that its users can now earn up to 2.5% Bitcoin back when shopping online at Bose.com.

Galeries Lafayette Haussmann has launched an Exclusive Live Shopping service as part of efforts to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

Powered by Go Instore, this gives home shoppers access to a large part of the luxury and premium range at the Galeries Lafayette flagship store via live video, with the assistance of a personal shopper or brand ambassador.

Furniture retailer Crate and Barrel has become the first Gladly customer to leverage its new Payments service.

This enables brands to provide personalised customer service via contact centres and lets customers complete transactions on messaging channels.

InPost has announced a partnership with South Western Railway (SWR) to install its e-commerce parcel lockers at 40 train stations.

Dutch co-operative supermarket chain PLUS Retail has placed an order worth around 100 million SEK as a first phase to roll-out Pricer’s electronic shelf label (ESL) platform to all of its 265 stores.

PLUS Retail has also teamed with RELEX Solutions as it looks to deliver planning processes that better meet local demand and cut waste.

Nespresso has launched a blockchain platform that lets people trace their coffee from farms in Zimbabwe through to the company’s production centre in Switzerland.

PULSE Integration has partnered with Habitat Clothes to deliver an AutoStore technology solution for the retailer’s new US distribution centre.