Last week’s biggest retail technology plays

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

UK automotive marketplace, Auto Trader, has implemented Looker’s analytics platform as part of its wider digital transformation initiative.

Online fashion platform Zalando is using GoodData technology for the launch of ZMS Insights. 

CoreRFID is supplying Brompton Bike Hire with RFID readers and tags to track over 2,300 bicycles for rent by the public and staff at St Bart’s Hospital and NHS London. 

The project includes the Wheels for Heroes scheme which offers NHS employees free bicycle rental as an alternative to public transport during the coronavirus crisis.

Amazon unveiled a six-wheel delivery robot, Scout, last year and has been slowly expanding its field tests.

After launching in a single neighbourhood in Snohomish County, Washington and then adding a larger site in Irvine, California last August, Scout is now undergoing trials in Atlanta, Georgia and Franklin, Tennessee, Amazon has announced. 

Software AG has launched an employee social distancing solution. 

Beta tests of the product have taken place in food production facilities and process manufacturing plants. The Göbecke bakery in Germany is one of the first companies to trial it.

Aussies can now shop online with Asos and pay for their goods in four instalments as the pureplay extends it partnership with Klarna.

American outdoor clothing brand Woolrich is working with distributed order management platform, Fluent Commerce, to boost its omnichannel capabilities in Europe.

Online retailer Low Cost Glasses has launched a virtual try-on tool for customers, announced a buy now, pay later partnership with Laybuy and integrated Google Pay and Apple Pay.

InPost UK is to provide its 24/7 self-serve parcel locker service to online fashion retailer Missguided

B2B food delivery service Brakes launched a new direct-to-consumer platform on the SAP Commerce Cloud in seven days during the coronavirus outbreak. 

Hammerson has worked with Red Ant to launch a new Crowd Checker website feature.

Japanese beauty brand Shiseido is rolling out Cegid’s cloud-based retail software to over 600 stores in Asia. 

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