Last week’s biggest retail technology plays
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Chinese venture Geek+ has announced a robotics project with Walmart Chile, the largest supermarket chain in the country, with 345 stores under the Liders Hiper, Lider Express, Superbodega Acuenta and Central Mayorista banners.
Urban clothing brand Bomboogie - part of the Space 2000 group - has wrapped an e-commerce project.
Kooomo worked with Space 2000 and design agency partner, Studioworx, to create both a corporate website for the company, as well as a bespoke e-commerce site which offers its whole product range in multiple languages.
Lifestyle retailer, SNIPES, is using Forter’s real-time, automated fraud prevention platform.
Aldi UK has worked with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to test out the addition of audio prompts (beeps) to its traffic light entry system.
Alimentation Couche-Tard, which operates close to 14,500 convenience stores worldwide, including under the Circle K brand, has selected Standard Cognition to pilot autonomous checkout technology.
The SM Store, the largest department store chain in the Philippines, is to deploy the Aptos Merchandise Financial Planning solution.
The Kroger Co. has announced that its Kroger Ship platform will expand to offer an extended ship-to-home assortment through a marketplace offering of third-party sellers powered by Mirakl.
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has signed a multi-year agreement with IBM as it looks to accelerate its transformation to an open hybrid cloud environment using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Retail Assist has landed Slater Menswear as a client.
Slater will be onboarding its supply chain and merchandising management solution, Merret Pro, whilst also benefiting from optimised store inventory management via the Merret Tablet Inventory application.
The Phone Co-op says that its e-commerce customer conversion rate has increased from 1.7% to 5% following the implementation of an intelligent guided selling tool, provided by Conversity.
