Retail technology deals and deployments round up
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.
French food retailer, Conserverie la belle-iloise, has completed the deployment of Openbravo Commerce Cloud to its 86 stores.
East of England Co-Op has extended its same-day grocery delivery service with Snappy Shopper.
Shoppers in East Anglia can now order groceries online from 92 of its stores and have them delivered to their homes in as little as 30 minutes.
Premier League big hitters Manchester City have partnered with fan engagement platform Socios.com to launch the $CITY fan token on the Chiliz blockchain.
Paradies Lagardère has introduced MishiPay’s Scan, Pay & Go technology in the US airport market.
The solution is being rolled out at the Univision travel essentials store at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and the Charlotte Gifts & News store at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Chinese e-commerce big hitter JD.com has revealed plans to help nearly 100 fresh produce markets in Shanghai go digital.
Homebase has launched a new website, developed in partnership with The Hut Group’s e-commerce division, THG Ingenuity.
Alibaba Group is rolling out its Xiaomanlv logistics robots to 15 universities in China.
Students can set a pick-up time to get deliveries to their dorms.
Xiaomanlv, which means little donkey, made its debut last year, tapping the artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology of Alibaba’s research and innovation institute DAMO Academy.
Live video shopping platform Bambuser has launched In-store Solutions, a new business unit dedicated to building interactive experiences connecting physical and digital spaces.
This is pitched at the likes of bricks and mortar retailers, property owners, shopping centres and department stores.
Starbucks has begun offering in all US stores a free service called Aira.
This connects blind and low vision people to trained visual interpreters who provide access to information through a third-party smartphone app.
E-commerce technology startup, Nibble, has launched on PreSols’ new Shopify store.
PreSols customers can now negotiate a personalised price with a chatbot on a range of washable, breathable face masks.
Amazon has continued its UK bricks and mortar push with the opening of an Amazon Fresh store at Wembley Park, London.
It’s the second such convenience store to offer Just Walk Out Shopping tech in the UK, which was pioneered at the Amazon Go offering in the States.
Flying Tiger Copenhagen has launched MishiPay’s mobile self-checkout solution.
Using the technology, customers at 30 stores in Denmark, Norway and Sweden can now scan and pay using their smartphones, leaving them free to exit without having to wait in line at a conventional checkout.
Walmart has hosted a second shoppable livestreaming event on social video app TikTok, focusing on beauty products, including L'Oréal's Maybelline and NYX Cosmetics brands, Bliss, The Lip Bar, Kim Kimble and Marc Jacobs fragrances.
The retailer’s Spring Shop-Along: Beauty Edition let viewers order products directly from its TikTok channel.
