Acromove to run Carrefour Greece pilot with Retail & More
Acromove has reached an agreement with Retail & More to run a proof of concept of the AcroCloud solution as the potential IT platform for the latter’s planned Carrefour retail network in Greece.
“AcroCloud is what has been missing from Edge computing: a truly unique solution that gives retailers exactly what they want – a cloud computing experience,” says Evan Achillopoulos, CTO at Acromove.
“They do not have to think about planning, building, maintaining, or investing in Edge computing infrastructure. Like the true cloud, they rent as much compute capability as they need as they grow.”
“But instead of being in a centralised datacentre, this cloud is in their facility giving them full autonomy and the very low latency needed for real time applications.”
“We are honoured and excited to be working with Retail & More to demonstrate the innovation that we can provide at the edge for the retail sector.”
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Earlier this year, French retail giant Carrefour announced its return to Greece, a decade after it exited the country in the wake of its debt crisis.
It has inked a franchise deal with Retail & More, a subsidiary of AVE owned TeleUnicom.
“The Carrefour brand and products are well known to Greek customers and we are very excited to bring them the best of Carrefour,” said Patrick Lasfargues, Executive Director of International Partnerships at Carrefour.
“TeleUnicom will give us the best platform to enter this market quickly and efficiently. By setting up in Greece in 2022, Carrefour Partenariat International maintains its strong development dynamic in new geographies.”
Vasilis Stasinoulias, who served as Chief Executive at Carrefour-Marinopoulos from 2008-11, will head up the new partnership.
