Last week’s biggest retail technology plays at a glance
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Featuring Puma, CVS, Walmart, Asda, Netto, The Very Group.
Online marketplace Fruugo has announced a payments partnership with Adyen.
Through its use of Adyen’s platform, Fruugo is able to offer a wide range of local payment methods in each of 41 different countries in which it operates.
Puma has chosen parcelLab to enhance its customers’ post-online purchase experience and drive sales through delivering branded and personalised communications across 26 countries.
Quick commerce firm Jiffy recently shifted from grocery delivery to providing software for other delivery apps.
And it has now inked an exclusive partnership with Zapp as it looks to provide continuity to its customers in London.
Zapp will become the official choice for Jiffy customers wishing to continue ordering essentials for delivery within minutes. The agreement will also include customer and product analytics, and key supplier partnerships.
Lolli has partnered with CVS to offer Bitcoin rewards.
Shoppers can now earn 3% back on all of their CVS purchases at nearly 10,000 locations across the US.
British luxury sportswear brand, Cole Buxton, has deployed Cegid Retail’s mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution in its flagship store in London.
This helps employees serve customers, check stock and process payments from anywhere in the store, directly using iPhones.
Parcel delivery firm DPD is now providing an all electric delivery service to 10 UK towns and cities and is aiming for 30 such locations by the end of 2023.
Unbound Group, home to UK footwear brand Hotter, has announced the launch of a curated online multi-brand retail platform, powered by Mirakl.
This is scheduled to be introduced at the end of July and due for a full autumn launch in early September.
Greggs has signed with long standing technology partner Daisy Corporate Services to deliver a SD-WAN solution powered by Meraki.
Boardriders, the parent company of sports brands like Quiksilver and Billabong, has deployed Darktrace’s autonomous response technology, Antigena, to defend against cyber threats across the organisation’s digital environment.
Asda has selected Luminate Commerce solutions from Blue Yonder to modernise its omnichannel order management capabilities.
The grocery giant will also partner with Bringg, a Blue Yonder technology alliance partner and delivery and fulfilment cloud platform, as it looks to make each element of the supply chain seamless, connected and orchestrated.
Walmart is set to expand its DroneUp delivery network to 34 sites by the end the year, providing the potential to reach four million US households across six states – Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
The move provides the ability to deliver over one million packages by drone in a year.
Between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., customers will be able to order from tens of thousands of eligible items for delivery by air in as little as 30 minutes. The total weight of delivery is up to 10lbs and the fee is $3.99.
Walmart is also planning to scale its drone infrastructure, offering local businesses and municipalities aerial drone solutions in areas like insurance, emergency response and real estate.
The Very Group, which operates digital retailer Very.co.uk, is looking to transform its content management system through a new partnership with Amplience.
Using the latter’s Dynamic Content solution, Very says it will simplify and speed up the process of managing digital content across all of its brands and devices.
Fashion pureplay retailer, boohoo group, says that it has improved operational efficiency and speed to market, with a product information management solution from Akeneo.
Netto is testing out a shopping cart from Imagr that scans items and handles payment, enabling shoppers to skip checkout queues.
This is currently live at Kirkegårdsvej in Copenhagen, and it will shortly also be found at Kongelundsvej in Copenhagen, Runevej in Aarhus, Bybuen in Skovlunde and Virum.
The shopper’s smartphone is connected to the shopping cart via the Netto+ app. When the cart is filled with goods, these are automatically registered with the user receiving a digital receipt.
The trial is set to run until July.
Federated Co-operatives Limited (Co-op Grocery Stores) has selected technology from Invafresh to help reduce food waste in its stores.
Owned by independent retail co-operatives from across Western Canada, FCL says that it selected Invafresh’s cloud native Fresh Retail Platform to improve product availability and freshness, enable associate productivity and department level profitability, and enhance consumer trust and loyalty.
Sensei is providing an autonomous retail experience for petrol station customers following a tie up with Galp in the Iberian Peninsula.
Sensei has created a 323 square foot checkout-free convenience store at a Galp location in Lisbon.
This offers a number of non-perishable goods, food, snacks and beverages to customers and includes a network of cameras mounted in the ceiling and sensors in shelves to detect the items people pick or leave.
The autonomous software creates and keeps track of each person’s virtual shopping bag and charges them automatically via an app, with credit card payments soon to follow, upon exiting..
The store is open to customers from 8am until midnight every day with 24/7 access becoming available in the next month.
