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 Instacart, Dollar Tree, Tesco, Gorillas, Amazon, REWE, Trigo, and Zalando.
Instacart and Dollar Tree have expanded their partnership to offer same-day delivery in as fast as one hour from nearly 7,000 of the latter’s US stores.
French retailer Cultura is to deploy Aptos’ Merchandise Financial Planning and Assortment Planning solutions.
Tesco is launching a pilot with rapid grocery delivery venture Gorillas.
The retailer’s customers will be able to order Tesco products to their doors, within 10 minutes, via the Gorillas app, starting this week.
Gorillas will set up micro-fulfilment sites at five large Tesco stores to handle the deliveries.
The first store to be involved in the partnership is in Thornton Heath, London.
Amazon has opened YUL9, pitched as the e-commerce giant’s most advanced sort centre in Canada, in Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec.
The 720,000 square foot YUL9 facility will be the first sort centre in Canada to implement Amazon Robotics' mobile robotic order fulfilment systems.
The move will enable faster order fulfilment to communities in Eastern Canada.
Google Cloud and Groupe Rocher, the parent company of cosmetics, home improvement, and textile brands such as Arbonne International, Yves Rocher, and Petit Bateau, have announced a five-year agreement to accelerate the latter’s digitisation and foster its sustainability strategy through IT.
Sofology has launched a tool which aims to inspire shoppers and help them make more informed purchasing decisions.
‘Create Your Look’, powered by Hullabalook, allows people to build their own interior designs and visualise how sofas will look at home.
They can explore the retailer’s product catalogue and add their favourite products to a canvas.
The canvas is customisable; shoppers can change the wall and floor colours and move the products around to replicate their own spaces.
REWE has opened its first Trigo powered hybrid autonomous store in Cologne, Germany.
The move marks Israel-based computer vision startup Trigo’s entry into the German market.
GXO Logistics and Saks have announced that a new GXO e-fulfilment centre in Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA, has begun shipping to customers nationwide.
Online retailer Very, which is operated by The Very Group, has launched a stockless fulfilment model with adidas and Reebok.
The integration, which means some products will be shipped directly from adidas and Reebok to Very customers, delivered the retailer’s biggest ever drop of new product lines.
Plans are afoot to scale up this model over the next few months to cover more brands including Quiz, Lacoste, Kickers, Berghaus, Speedo and Ann Summers.
This would involve implementing new in-house technology platforms, integrated with external platforms, including Oracle Retail Merchandising Cloud Service and IBM’s Sterling Order Management, which are built on an open API integration framework.
European fashion platform Zalando has extended its Magazino TORU robot fleet at its logistics site in Lahr, Germany.
The existing fleet of eight will be joined by 20 additional robots, some of which will support the picking of shoes ordered online during Cyber Week 2021.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and its food services provider, Sodexo, have partnered with Starship Technologies to roll-out a delivery service via autonomous robots.
D2C brand Emma – The Sleep Company has selected commercetools and Fluent Commerce to provide a new e-commerce platform.
Avantra has partnered with MAS, a South Asia-based apparel and textile manufacturer, to offer real-time SAP monitoring and automation services.
Ted Baker is making its first foray into the clothing gaming market. This month it will showcase its autumn/winter brand campaign and clothing collections within its own universe on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
The lifestyle brand says that it is “experimenting with new and innovative digital formats in a bid to develop its cultural capital and capture market share from a Millennial audience”.
Sephora has partnered with RELEX Solutions in a bid to improve demand forecasting and automated replenishment.
