Last week’s biggest retail technology plays
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Pret A Manger is using Eagle Eye’s AIR platform as part of the foundation for its new coffee subscription service.
Costing £20 per month, YourPret Barista enables users to get up to five barista prepared drinks per day, where the first month is free as part of a national launch.
US online grocer Farmstead is making its in-house grocery delivery software Grocery OS available to other retailers.
Mexico City-based men’s fashion venture Haber Holding has selected the Aptos Enterprise Order Management cloud solution as it looks to accelerate its omnichannel transformation efforts.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s Alibaba Cloud division has unveiled an autonomous logistics robot for last mile deliveries.
Developed by the Alibaba DAMO Academy, this can carry 50 packages at one time and cover 62 miles (or 100 kilometres) on a single charge.
Alibaba Cloud estimates that the robot should be able to deliver as many as 500 packages a day to one designated community or campus as demand for speedy last-mile delivery increases in China.
Russian food retailer, X5 Retail Group, has launched a contactless shopping system that is accessible via a mobile app.
This is powered by its Express Scan technology, which was developed in-house.
Swisslog is working with H-E-B to deploy a number of automated micro-fulfilment centres that will support the US retailer’s curbside pick-up and delivery business.
These will feature AutoStore technology and Swisslog's SynQ software and pick stations.
Arçelik has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider for machine learning and analytics across its operations.
Scandinavian fashion marketplace Miinto has deployed RichRelevance’s Personalisation solution.
Empire is expanding its e-commerce offering to Atlantic Canada with the launch of Voilà by Sobeys Curbside Pickup.
Powered by Ocado Group’s in-store fulfilment technology, this is available at three Sobeys locations in Nova Scotia, with customers able to order online at voila.ca or by downloading a mobile app.
Avon has partnered with APEXX Global to provide a payment solution for representatives across many of its markets.
Italian notebook manufacturer Moleskine is partnering with Salesforce on the launch of a new e-commerce website in 2021.
It will also be leveraging a range of Salesforce solutions, including Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud.
Walmart has greenlit another drone delivery trial in the US.
It is teaming up with Zipline to launch a “first of its kind operation in the US”. The service will make deliveries of select health and wellness products with the potential to expand to general merchandise.
Discount retailer TJ Morris is tapping new motion sensor technology from Hitachi Europe for a traffic light queueing system at all 550 of its Home Bargains stores across the UK.
