What's new in the retail technology world?
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Fast fashion pureplay boohoo has selected Akeneo to manage product information as part of its omnichannel strategy.
BALA has chosen Brightpearl and Shopify to help bring its footwear for nurses to market for the first time.
Samsung Next food technology platform, Whisk, has added Sainsbury’s to its ecosystem.
Shoppers can now turn any recipe from Whisk’s network of publishers, brands, and apps into a shopping list and purchase for Click and Collect or delivery from Sainsbury’s.
Imagr's SmartCarts have gone live at an Oasis supermarket store in Nakanoshima, Osaka, Japan.
The intelligent shopping trolley taps computer vision and AI technologies.
Customers can pair their phone with a cart, do their shopping and leave without scanning any barcodes.
Convenience specialist Lekkerland has chosen RELEX Solutions to provide demand forecasting (including weather-based forecasting), automatic replenishment, and fresh optimisation.
Walmart is set to install micro-fulfilment centres next to and inside some of its stores.
These will use autonomous robots to fetch the likes of boxed and frozen food for online orders.
Human workers will handle more complex tasks such as choosing fresh produce or larger items. Orders will then be picked up at the store by customers or delivery workers.
Starship Technologies has raised $17 million and completed one million autonomous deliveries.
Zadig & Voltaire has gone live with Aptos’ Allocation & Replenishment and Commercial Buying Session solutions across its stores and online channel.
Dreams is using Exasol’s analytics database to centralise data, improve customer experience and support data driven decision making.
Edeka Rhein-Ruhr, part of Germany’s largest supermarket chain, Edeka, is equipping its new distribution centre, located in Oberhausen-Waldteich, with a robotic order picking system from Cimcorp.
bareMinerals says that it has improved online engagement and increased AOV (average order value), thanks to a solution from Wunderkind.
Team ITG and its partner Emerald Thinking have been appointed to build a ‘Missions and Motivations Engine’ for Wickes in 2021.
This will interpret customer inputs from a variety of first, second and third-party data sources to turn individual content, product and category engagement interest into whole basket recommendations.
Following a trial, John Lewis & Partners is rolling out 3D visualisation technology from Marxent for home design appointments.
Coop has become the first grocery chain in Sweden to collaborate with recycling app Bower.
This means that shoppers can buy Coop's own goods under the Änglamark, Xtra and Coop brands and earn double Bower points in the process.
IBM and the Fung Group have announced a multi-year agreement to support the latter’s overhaul of its IT infrastructure, enabled by hybrid multicloud and backed up by IBM Global Technology Services (GTS).
Selco Builders Warehouse is ditching the traditional tannoy announcement system and instead will be providing headsets from VoCoVo to employees at its 69 UK stores.
The tie up follows trials carried out in Reading, Kingston, Walthamstow, Orpington, Tyseley and Croydon last year.
Pinterest has expanded its augmented reality Try On tool to cover eyeshadow, with products from Lancome, YSL, Urban Decay, and NYX Cosmetics.
Best Buy Canada has selected Unily to overhaul its intranet system with a cloud-based solution.
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