Retail technology deals and deployments at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days, including Best Buy Canada, Farfetch, boohoo and Amazon.

Perfect Corp. and Snap have launched a shoppable Lens experience with first brand partner, The Estée Lauder Companies.

M·A·C Cosmetics will be among the first brands in The Estée Lauder Companies’ portfolio to launch Dynamic Shopping Lenses on their Snapchat profile, utilising its existing try-on experiences created with Perfect Corp.

Best Buy Canada has placed an order to deploy Pricer’s electronic shelf labels (ESL) system in its 129 stores.

Snap has lifted the lid on a virtual try-on partnership with online luxury fashion platform Farfetch.

At the Snap Partner Summit, it brought this to life by featuring three jackets from Off-White, using voice and machine learning powered technology.

Shoppers are able to try on outfits and swap them, using just their voices.

We are proud to announce that one of the most highly respected conglomerates in the Middle East, AW Rostamani Lifestyle, has chosen Coniq to develop and run a first-of-its-kind omnichannel loyalty program.
— Coniq (@ConiqHQ) May 18, 2021

Go Instore has teamed with sofa and carpet retailer ScS to launch myScSlive, a live video service offering personalised advice for customers shopping from their homes.

Organic grocery retailer Abel & Cole has worked with Code Computerlove on the launch of a new consumer app. This is available to download for iOS and Android devices.

Amazon has opened an Amazon Fresh location in Canary Wharf, London.

It’s the fourth such convenience store to feature Just Walk Out Shopping tech in the UK, which was pioneered at the Amazon Go offering in the States.

The other three are in Ealing, Wembley Park and White City.

Shopping app Jisp has inked a partnership agreement with Nisa Retail to offer its home delivery, Click & Collect and scan and go solutions to almost 4,000 stores nationwide.

Nisa, which is a part of the Co-op Group, will also be integrating with Jisp’s EPoS system to provide retailers with up-to-date products, promotions, prices and stock levels.

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Excited to continue growing our support for #local stores and communities thanks to our latest partnership with @NisaRetail!https://t.co/NsOTvVJMP7
— Jisp (@jispapp) May 21, 2021

Online fashion retailer boohoo has launched recently acquired brands Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton on its e-commerce platform in partnership Astound Commerce.

Kazidomi, an online retailer that sells healthy and organic foods, has deployed Adyen’s new Planet tool.

This lets Adyen’s merchants offer their shoppers the opportunity to offset the carbon footprint of their purchases at the end of the checkout process.

Italian cooperative Realco has announced a demand forecasting and distribution centre replenishment partnership with RELEX Solutions.

Vertebrae is partnering with New York eyewear and fashion brand MOSCOT to deliver a virtual try-on experience.

MOSCOT now offers 3D and AR enabled visualisations at accurate size and scale for several popular styles of glasses.

This allows shoppers to see how the frames will fit on their face, examine materials and details close up, and more easily determine which styles, colours and sizes are right for them.