Last week’s biggest retail technology deals at a glance
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Featuring Kroger/Ocado Group, X5 Retail, Circle K, Yandex Deli and Instacart/99 Cents Only Stores.
Home furnishings retailer Terrys has unveiled a new online immersive experience, which tailors shopping specifically by colour palette.
The family run business has a store in Staffordshire and an e-commerce site which serves customers across the UK.
Its Shop by Colour offering is the result of Terrys experiencing a surge in on-site searches for colour related terms.
Yango Deli, the rapid grocery delivery arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, has launched in the UK.
It is opening four dark stores across London and promising to deliver groceries in around 15 minutes.
The move builds on a network of more than 400 locations, operated by Yango Deli in France and Israel and by Yandex.Lavka in Russia.
Russian food retailer X5 Group has opened a new Vprok.ru Perekrestok dark store with a total area of 37,000 sq m.
Located in Salaryevo, Novomoskovsky District, it is the online hypermarket's third such facility in Moscow and the fifth and largest in Russia. The dark store has increased Vprok.ru Perekrestok's total capacity in the Moscow region by 40%.
US-based autonomous checkout solution provider, Standard AI (formerly known as Standard Cognition) has worked with Circle K to open its offering in a store in Arizona.
Using AI powered cameras throughout the store, the system identifies the products shoppers pick up and automatically records the purchases on the Circle K mobile app, eliminating time spent at traditional checkout areas.
Instacart has partnered with discount retailer 99 Cents Only Stores to deliver from more than 300 store locations across California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas.
This builds on a 23 store pilot launched in May.
Alongside the Marketplace expansion, Instacart has also launched a new white label storefront for the 99, built and powered by its enterprise technology.
Vyne is partnering with e-commerce venture The Hut Group (THG).
Based on Open Banking technology, the integration will allow consumers to make online payments directly to THG brands and retail sites via the likes of mobile, desktop, in app, SMS and email.
In turn, brands offering Vyne can bypass card networks and their associated fees.
Glenfiddich has partnered with BlockBar to launch a series of 15 limited edition liquor NFTs.
Each one corresponds to a physical bottle of a 1973 46 year old Armagnac cask finish Single Malt Scotch Whisky that is sold by Glenfiddich.
America's largest grocery retailer, Kroger, is set to offer more people Kroger Delivery through the addition of five new customer fulfilment centres powered by Ocado Group.
It is planning to enter the northeast market and expand in California and Florida.
UK-based FinTech venture Mode has launched its Open Banking payments and Bitcoin rewards solution with The Hut Group’s THG Ingenuity tech platform.
The integration can now be found on all 30+ THG brands at checkout, including Lookfantastic, Myprotein and The Hut.
McDonald's has released a set of 188 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to celebrate its 31st anniversary in the Chinese market.
