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 Amazon, Matalan, Domino’s Pizza, Harrods, and Netto.
Matalan has announced completion of phase one of its digital transformation programme.
In collaboration with THG Ingenuity, it is due to migrate its technology platform in 2022 to support and accelerate online growth.
Discount grocery retailer, Netto, part of the Edeka Group, has opened its first ever Trigo powered frictionless checkout store in Munich, Germany.
The 250 square metre store underwent a retrofit to become a Pick&Go hybrid autonomous offering.
Amazon has opened Amazon Fresh locations in Euston, Wandsworth and Chingford, London, bringing the total number in the UK to 15.
These are powered by the e-commerce giant’s Just Walk Out technology, which was pioneered at Amazon Go in the States. and offer a selection of its private food brand, by Amazon.
Other stores can be found in the likes of Camden, Ealing, Wembley Park, White City, Canary Wharf and Dalston. Opening hours are from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm, seven days a week.
Customers use the Amazon app to enter and put their phone away and shop for what they need. At the end of their visit, they can head for the exit, with no need to stand in a queue or check out.
Compass Group UK & Ireland, part of foodservice business Compass Group, has unveiled plans to launch its first fully frictionless store in a workplace in early 2022.
This is set to open in Ireland followed by additional sites in the UK over the next year, including units within other corporate clients, as well as in the sports and leisure and defence sectors.
The new stores will utilise AiFi’s AI powered computer vision technology which allows shoppers to purchase items in-store without having to wait in line or stop to scan or pay.
They will typically stock a selection of both hot and chilled ‘grab-n-go’ dishes, drinks and confectionery.
GXO Logistics says that it has achieved an industry first by deploying 6 River Systems (6RS) collaborative robots, or cobots, on multiple mezzanine floors in one of its distribution centres in Milton Keynes, England.
Domino’s Pizza India has announced a partnership with customer engagement platform MoEngage.
It says that the latter’s AI powered solutions will enable it to “consolidate the customer profile, and purchase data collected from 1,400+ stores and other online channels and gain a 360-degree view of each customer through 50+ tracked attributes.”
Hudson, which has more than 1,000 stores in airports, commuter hubs, landmarks and tourist destinations across North America, has become the first retailer in the travel industry to offer Amazon’s palm recognition service, Amazon One.
This is now available at Hudson Nonstop – powered by Just Walk Out technology – at Dallas Love Field Airport.
Wellness brand The Good Patch has announced a partnership with retail operating system specialist Brightpearl.
The tie up will include an intuitive Demand Planner tool, automation engine and advanced reporting and analytics.
Home textile and decoration brand, Madame Coco, is partnering with RELEX Solutions to automate its forecasting, replenishment, allocation, and markdown processes.
The latter’s technology will service all Madame Coco stores, its e-commerce channel, and distribution centres throughout Turkey, Europe, and Asia.
Harrods has worked with Visualise AR & VR on an augmented reality experience which blends the retailer’s Christmas window displays with 3D animations, delivered through WebAR technology in a mobile browser.
UK-based Hullabalook’s Stickers online technology is now live in Spain, France and Italy thanks to its partnership with Kave Home.
This converts retailers’ products into 2D ‘stickers’, which furniture shoppers can select and move around a blank canvas.
Users can explore a product catalogue, design their space and then checkout in one click.
