Retail technology deals and deployments round up
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
adidas has opened its first ever flagship store in Dubai.
The 16,000 sq ft space, which opened last week, has 60 digital touchpoints, along with the MakerLab offering for bespoke creation and design of products, CrepProtect, a free shoe cleaning service and a Bring It To Me app feature.
The location also features smart mirrors, tapping RFID technology that provides information about products on the mirror.
Zumiez has selected Workday’s Financial Management, Adaptive Planning, and Prism Analytics solutions as part of a digital finance transformation project.
Costa Express, Costa Coffee’s self-service machines offshoot, has selected RELEX Solutions’ supply chain optimisation software.
Spanish electrical and technology e-commerce venture PcComponentes has gone live with Australian startup CitrusAd’s Retail Media platform.
It is using the tech so brands can boost their products into the top highest selling positions on the retailer's website.
The MATCH chain of supermarkets in Luxembourg has implemented Openbravo WMS as part of the transformation of its supply chain.
Rebecca Minkoff, a US-based fashion brand that was founded by brother and sister duo Rebecca and Uri Minkoff in 2005, has signed up for Klarna’s buy now, pay later service.
Bestseller brands Name It and Vero Moda have entered into a live shopping partnership with Bambuser.
Cencosud Chile has inked a two-year renewal of its DemandTec Price Optimisation subscription, extending a relationship that started in 2016.
Russian food retailer, X5 Retail Group, has announced that Perekrestok shoppers can use the supermarket chain’s mobile app to opt out of paper receipts.
They will instead receive e-receipts as part of X5’s Zero Waste initiative.
WorldLine and Amadis have completed a multi-country payment solution roll-out for Subway.
Urban Outfitters has been using JRNI Appointments across its Anthropologie and BHLDN brands to deliver new ways of connecting with customers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Majid Al Futtaim, which owns and operates shopping malls, retail, and leisure establishments in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has joined IBM Food Trust, a blockchain-enabled initiative run on IBM Cloud.
As a result, Carrefour UAE, which the aforementioned company owns and operates, will, according to a press release, become “the first retailer in the region to offer new levels of insight and transparency to its customers about the provenance of their food via end-to-end visibility on products throughout its supply chain”.
US grocery delivery service Instacart is reportedly looking into the use of robotic warehouses to fulfil its orders.
It currently uses more than 500,000 gig workers for this.
According to a FT article, citing several people familiar with discussions, Instacart has initially expressed a desire to open as many as 50 micro-fulfilment centres across the US in about a year.
Japanese lifestyle brand MUJI has gone live with MishiPay’s Scan, Pay & Go mobile self-checkout solution in Sweden.
Mars Wrigley and Wakefern Food Corp. are partnering with Savioke to test out a robotic kiosk that delivers products to shoppers at a ShopRite store in Monroe, New York.
The pilot is part of Mars Wrigley's Launchpad programme, which was established in 2017 and has delivered 60 pilots with over 300 startups.
