Last week’s biggest retail technology plays
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Marks and Spencer has increased its Mobile Pay Go network from 100 to 310 stores.
The service enables customers to buy their groceries (up to the value of £30) without visiting a till, using the M&S mobile app.
Auchan Retail Portugal is to deploy Trax’s autonomous shelf monitoring solutions, including robots, across its network of 34 supermarkets and hypermarkets.
Online electrical retailer AO has announced an artificial intelligence partnership with Peak. It will initially be utilising Peak’s system to generate data for its mobile business, AO Mobile.
Quadient’s automated packaging system, CVP Everest, has been selected by The White Company, and will be installed in August at its fulfilment centre in Northampton, UK.
Waitrose and John Lewis have announced plans to increase the use of electric vans as they look to end the use of fossil fuels across their entire transport fleet by 2030.
The John Lewis Partnership will use two new designs of vehicle for its Waitrose.com food deliveries and for smaller John Lewis deliveries, saving over 20,000 tonnes of CO2 every year.
Tracxpoint has announced the availability of its modular smart cart platform for North American retailers.
Greeting card retailer Lovepop has deployed Brightpearl’s omnichannel retail platform.
Virgin Experience Days, a UK-based specialist in gift experiences, has deployed Dynamic Yield’s A/B testing and personalisation technology.
Asda says that it is the first UK supermarket to trial a permanent trolley wash facility.
Developed by The WasteCare Group, the unit is now in place at its Morley store and works by coating trolleys in fine particles containing an anti-microbial solution, leaving them clean and dry to the touch in seconds.
