Last week’s biggest retail technology deals at a glance
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Featuring PrettyLittleThing, Best Buy, Ikea, and Albertsons Companies.
LOOP Digital Wardrobe, a mobile app which digitalises and connects users’ wardrobes and offers multiple options for the secondary life of clothes, has launched.
This is an extension of the LOOP plug and play sustainability and marketing platform, which is integrated into retailer’s checkouts to give them access to a range of sustainable post-purchase services like resale, swapping, upcycling, charity donation and returns.
Best Buy has selected Amazon Web Service (AWS) as its preferred provider for cloud infrastructure services and its strategic partner for developing cloud engineering talent.
Ikea is now offering shoppers in the US and Canada a buy now, pay later service with Sezzle.
Other recent retailer wins for Sezzle include Target, Lamps Plus, Barstool Sports, The Hut Group, Wakefern Food, BELLAMI Hair, California Pet Pharmacy, Market America, Rogers Sporting Goods, Dermstore, Sportsman's Guide, Made in Cookware, Spartan Race, and Princess Auto.
Fashion retailer, PrettyLittleThing, has entered the metaverse with the introduction of its first ever digital model.
‘’As a reactive brand we have always listened to our customers’ requests to provide them with innovative and progressive content,” says a PrettyLittleThing spokesperson.
“Virtual Girl bridges the gap between the metaverse and real life, where for the first time, our customers can discover products showcased by the latest addition to our model/influencer family.”
Emarsys has announced a partnership with OGGI Jeans, as part of a technology upgrade designed to support revenue growth of 20% by the end of 2022.
The fashion brand will be using Emarsys’ Channel Automation and Personalisation technologies to prioritise the growth of customer lifetime value (CLTV).
It will also tap this new tech to de-silo data from different streams and facilitate one to one personalisation for customers.
Asda is trialling an automated age verification solution at self-checkouts.
As the result of a partnership with NCR and Yoti, customers at the UK grocery retailer’s Pudsey and Stevenage stores can use privacy preserving age estimation technology when purchasing alcohol, which works via a camera in the self-checkout screen.
Food retail, wholesale and foodservice company, Musgrave, has rolled out an ESL (electronic shelf label) solution from Pricer, across its SuperValu and Centra stores in Northern Ireland.
Albertsons Companies is set to deploy an AI powered platform from Afresh Technologies across its more than 2,200 supermarkets in 34 US states.
The predictive ordering and inventory solutions will help it to optimise fresh food forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations.
