Last week’s biggest retail technology plays
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Buy now, pay later venture, Openpay, has added Fulham F.C. to its merchant roster.
Umbro is teaming with Absurd to create a new global web platform.
Deloitte Digital and Trax have teamed up to make implementation and integration of the latter’s Retail Watch shelf monitoring solution available to Deloitte’s grocery retail customer base in Spain.
Charlotte Tilbury has deployed Looker, the business intelligence and analytics platform from Google Cloud.
Tesco will next month trial grocery home deliveries with drones. This will take place in Ireland, where the retailer’s partner Manna has a licence to operate.
Walmart has announced a drone delivery pilot with Flytrex.
This has launched in Fayetteville, North Carolina and focuses on delivering select grocery and household essential items from Walmart stores.
Dunkin’ is set to test out an Amazon Go style store in California.
The checkout-free pilot will launch in October at an as yet unnamed location. It will involve the use of Shop Anywhere by Mastercard, which is powered by Accel Robotics. Circle K and foodservice management company Delaware North are also testing the technology.
Laser Clinics UK has signed a three-year contract with Retail Assist which will see the latter provide its IT Help Desk service.
Mexican furniture retailer, Gaia Design, has gone live with new Stickers technology from startup Hullabalook.
The aim here is to recreate the showroom experience that has been lost due to Covid-19. Gaia Design used the tech to launch Sketchbuilder, which allows you to visualise your space with 2D stickers and share or buy products on any device.
Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build and deploy blockchain solutions on Amazon Managed Blockchain.
Over the next 12 to 18 months, the company will work on blockchain solutions for the aviation, telecom and healthcare sectors, and also industries like banking and financial services, retail, manufacturing, and oil and gas.
Amazon is developing its Amazon Scout vehicles for use in the UK following the coronavirus powered boom in online shopping. Work is taking place at its Cambridge centre.
London-based startup Social Vend has worked with Haeckles to turn the skincare and fragrances retailer’s Margate store into “a fully automated, humanless experience”
Buy now, pay later specialist Klarna has launched a redesigned app, which includes wish lists and price alerts.
The value of transactions processed by smart checkout technologies will hit $387 billion in 2025, up from $2 billion in 2020, according to Juniper Research.
This will be driven by retailers seeking sustainable business models in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
US startup Vop is powering a solution for Dolls Kill that connects TikTok data with the business intelligence platform Looker.
European operator of outlet shopping destinations, VIA Outlets, is renewing and expanding its agreement with Coniq as the sole provider of customer engagement and loyalty software and services across its portfolio.
