Top 10: last week’s most popular retail technology articles
These are the RTIH articles that caught your fancy last week, including Retail Technology Show, Circle K, Standard AI, Glovo, and Food Rocket.
RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List: 100-1
The latest edition of the RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List has arrived! Here are the people who made a splash in 2021 and are set for a barnstorming 2022.
Dayrize named winner of Retail Technology Show Innovation Awards
Dayrize has been crowned the winner of the 2022 Innovation Awards from Retail Technology Show.
Selected from the 200+ retail technology providers exhibiting at the event, the awards celebrate and recognise the most future forward technologies with the power to transform retailers’ operations.
Glovo unveils digital learning programme for couriers
On-demand delivery venture, Glovo, has launched G-Learning, which aims to help couriers and platform workers gain access to more qualified jobs by providing online training courses and tools.
The idea came from surveying Glovo couriers across its 25 markets and recognising that ‘learning’, ‘training’ and ‘courses’ appeared in the top five opportunities they would like to seek.
Circle K taps Standard AI tech for autonomous checkout experience
Standard AI has announced the opening of an autonomous store in partnership with Circle K.
This builds on another checkout-free tie up from last year.
Customers walk in the Phoenix, Arizona store, shop as normal, and tap the Circle K Innovation app at Standard AI’s tablet-based stations when they’re ready to leave. Receipts are sent to their phones within minutes.
Last week’s biggest retail technology plays at a glance
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail tech deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Featuring Amazon, boohoo group, Asda, Farmstead, and Americanas.
Kraft Heinz and Microsoft team on supply chain innovation
The Kraft Heinz Company and Microsoft Corp. are joining forces to develop solutions designed to accelerate the consumer goods giant’s transformation strategy and enable a more resilient supply chain.
Selfridges announces Paco Rabanne and Victor Vasarely NFT collection launch
A first of its kind collaborative Web3 project with Paco Rabanne and Victor Vasarely, and powered by Selfridges, launched last week.
An NFT collection brings Paco's archive of haute-couture dresses and Vasarely's op-art artworks into the metaverse.
Rapid grocery delivery startup Food Rocket raises $25m
15 minute grocery delivery service, Food Rocket, has announced a $25 million Series A investment round.
This will be used to expand its offering in Chicago and other cities throughout the US, as well as reinforce its AI enabled software and enhance the team.
The lead investor is Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT), which has more than 14,000 Circle K and Couche-Tard locations in 26 countries and territories, including 7,000+ in the US.
Five key takeaways from Retail Technology Show
Retail Technology Show took place last week at London’s Olympia. And it was an epic affair. Here are our five key takeaways from a fantastic two days of networking and conference sessions.
Retail Technology Show review - Tinie Tempah talks up the metaverse and NFTs
The metaverse is not something retailers can afford to ignore, the rapper and angel investor Tinie Tempah says, calling it an “incredible opportunity” for businesses to find new customers and revenue.
The British musician said retailers and brands who do not get involved or invest in the metaverse now will look like those who missed out on the beginning of the dot.com wave or the rise of Facebook.
