Last week’s retail technology deals at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, deployments, initiatives and pilots from the past seven days, including Walmart, Sendo, and Currys PC World.

Bunzl UK & Ireland is rolling out forecasting and replenishment tech from RELEX Solutions.

Sendo, an e-commerce brand based in Vietnam, says that it has increased sales on on its website and mobile app by over 51%, with Netcore Cloud’s AI led multi-channel customer engagement platform.

It has also leveraged Netcore Smart Push to increase app push notification delivery which resulted in a 21% increase in app launches.

Time sensitive app push notification campaigns were also delivered at 2X speed, positively impacting engagement and conversions.

Imagr recently opened its first popup store in London, UK, located on Oxford Street.

The New Zealand-based startup fitted out a Sook adaptable retail space into a mini-market for “a fully immersive autonomous supermarket experience”.

It invited prospective customers, tech experts and press into the space for demonstrations of the offering, which includes smart carts and an imaging station.

Walmart has announced a supply chain automation partnership with Symbotic.

The two will deploy robotics tech at 25 regional Walmart distribution centres, with roll-out set to take several years to complete.

This builds on a 2017 pilot that brought Symbotic’s autonomous robotics platform to Walmart’s Brooksville, Florida distribution centre in a bid to increase freight sorting, stocking and unloading.

Online grocery delivery provider, The Modern Milkman, has selected Peak technology as it looks to streamline its platform, alongside optimising operational efficiency and preventing food waste.

It will use Peak’s decision intelligence platform to ensure that the right products are in stock in its localised grocery hubs.

Hullabalook’s PC Builder solution is now live on Currys PC World’s website.

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Halfords, a British retailer of car parts, car enhancement, tools, camping and touring equipment and bicycles, has entered the B2B software market.

It has launched Avayler, a new business, offering its proprietary field service management software to companies that operate in multiple locations.

The first customer is American Tire Distributors (ATD).

Avayler’s platform will underpin its operations, supplying tyres to 80,000 garages across the US. ATD will also be the exclusive provider of the Avayler mobile platform to the North American automotive market.

Recipe box venture Gousto has partnered with Spotify on a new platform that will provide recipe recommendations based on the listening preferences of the latter’s users.