Here are RTIH’s most popular retail technology articles on LinkedIn

We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. These are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Sainsbury’s, Foodhub, Penny Black, Hugo Boss, Jisp, and Trigo.

Sainsbury’s enlists Tata Consultancy Services for cloud first move

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is working with Sainsbury’s as the UK grocery giant looks to accelerate its cloud first strategy.

TCS has been a strategic partner to Sainsbury’s for over a decade.

As a part of a new multi-year deal, it will consolidate and modernise the retailer’s IT infrastructure landscape into a hybrid cloud stack using TCS Enterprise Cloud.

It will also provide end-to-end managed services for workplace services, network connectivity, and security.

The aim here is to help Sainsbury’s speed up time to market, create new revenue streams, and enhance agility to respond in real-time to emerging business scenarios.

Sainsbury’s plans to reinvest the savings to offer value to customers through innovation and lower costs.

Foodhub calls on new UK Prime Minister to curb spiralling food prices

Online takeaway firm Foodhub has erected a giant inflatable duck outside Downing Street and called on the incoming Prime Minister to ‘sort out this ducking shambles’, after food costs spiralled under Liz Truss’ short reign.

The company is protesting against what it calls “government inaction over rising costs” and demanding the new PM (Rishi Sunak) confront the issue head on.

E-commerce marketing and packaging startup Penny Black bags investment of £1.3m

Penny Black, an e-commerce platform that turns packaging into a marketing channel, has received £1.3 million in seed funding from AGFA and ninepointfive.

Incubated in AGFA’s innovation lab, supported by ninepointfive, Penny Black launched independently in the UK and Europe in April.

Its software connects e-commerce stores, marketing tools and fulfilment operations to deliver personalised experiences at the moment customers open their e-commerce packages.

The startup works with the likes of luxury jewellery and watch retailer, PAUL VALENTINE, tea mixology company, Bird & Blend and the online nursery décor store, the Modern Nursery.

Penny Black has also partnered with global e-commerce fulfilment providers, like Radial and Cloud Fulfillment, as well as marketing automation firm Klaviyo.

Woolworths Group announces payments partnership with Gr4vy

Gr4vy has announced a multi-year partnership with Woolworths Group.

Its payment orchestration platform (POP) technology will power Woolworths Group’s Wpay platform.

Jisp celebrates Scan & Save retail sales milestone

Money saving and rewards app startup, Jisp, reports that its Scan & Save solution has racked up £1 million in retail sales.

Since its launch on September 13th 2021, Scan & Save is now operational in over 337 convenience stores across the UK.

RaiaDrogasil teams with Cloud4Wi to unlock location-based marketing in stores

Cloud4Wi has been selected by RaiaDrogasil, the largest drugstore company in Latin America in revenue and market capitalisation, to deploy location-based marketing technology across its 2,500 Brazilian stores.

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Hugo Boss announces Adobe 3D innovation in fashion tie up

Hugo Boss has enlisted Adobe to power its strategy around 3D and immersive design.

“To support our vision of becoming the leading premium tech driven fashion platform worldwide, we were one of the early companies to explore the potential of 3D and immersive design in fashion,” says Sebastian Berg, Vice President, Business Operations Excellence at Hugo Boss.

“Now we have over 400 employees working with these innovative tools to produce more inspiring and sustainable products, and to lead our industry in digital.”

“With Adobe Substance 3D as part of our Adobe Creative Cloud stack, we have a powerful tool that provides hyper realistic renderings of our products. It gives us greater speed in responding to global consumer trends, while helping us experiment with new digital services to drive 3D innovation in fashion.”

Autonomous stores firm Trigo announces recent $100m funding round

Checkout free stores specialist Trigo has bagged $100 million in funding, reaching a total of $204 million raised to date.

The investment was led by Singapore state investment firm Temasek (TEM.UL), and 83North.

New strategic investors include SAP and existing backers also joined the round, including Hetz Ventures, Red Dot Capital Partners, Vertex Ventures, Viola, and supermarket giant REWE Group.

Zebra Technologies flags change in shopper sentiment towards DIY tech

Shoppers are returning to shop in stores in similar numbers seen prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.

They have also embraced self-serve habits as they increasingly use DIY technology, allowing more associates more time on the floor to help customers.

That’s according to research by Zebra Technologies, involving over 4,200 shoppers, store associates and retail decision makers globally.