Essential retail technology deals and deployments
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
Footwear, clothing and equipment brand, inov-8, has rolled out Codeless Platforms’ BPA Platform offering for order fulfilment automation, synchronising data between its e-commerce channels, courier services and Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Computop is providing a contactless payment function for CEWE photo stations situated in many Boots’ stores around the UK and Ireland.
These devices enable customers to transfer photos from smartphones so they can be printed out. 2,200 photo stations will feature the Computop payment solution.
Amazon’s electric Rivian vans will start making deliveries in 16 US cities this year.
Capgemini Invent has partnered with SharpEnd on the launch of a new interactive retail store, CornerShop.
Located on the ground floor of The Drum Labs in Shoreditch, London, this taps various technologies to reimagine food, drink and fashion experiences.
Traceability solutions specialist, SUKU, has released Infinite, a new blockchain powered iOS app for sneaker collectors and resellers.
Aiming to combat the $450 billion dollar counterfeit sneakers market, this allows people to verify the authenticity of a shoe, activate an NFC enabled tag, and attach it physically to the shoe.
Solteq has announced a continued online user experience collaboration with Marks and Spencer.
M&S is utilising the Solteq Deep Vision analytics solution and related services.
Carrefour has chosen Pricer as its preferred electronic shelf labels supplier.
It intends to deploy the tech in approximately 500 stores by the end of 2022.
Card Factory has launched new iOS and Android mobile apps.
These are built on the Poq SaaS platform, which integrates existing Salesforce Commerce Cloud-based e-commerce product feeds and merchandising and targeted push notification management capabilities from Airship with native mobile app content management and checkout functionality.
Ocado is testing out electric and pedal-powered vehicles to deliver groceries.
The trial is operated by its Zoom rapid delivery service and is operating out of the retailer’s flagship site in Acton, west London.
Amazon is expanding its Amazon One palm reading biometric identification system to three more Amazon Go stores in Seattle.
British fashion retailer, Monsoon Accessorize, has partnered with Astound Commerce for a digital makeover.
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