History in the making: Check out last week’s most read RTIH retail technology articles
These are the RTIH articles that caught your fancy last week, including Carrefour, Pricer, Trigo, Auchan Retail, Adidas, tokenproof, 3D Cloud by Marxent, and Retail Technology Show 2023.
Drum roll, please. RTIH publishes its 2023 Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List
The latest edition of the RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List has arrived!
Here are the people who made a splash in 2022 and are set for a barnstorming 2023.
RTIH has scoured the retail technology world to find the most influential figures for this comprehensive list of people and trends that shape the industry and help drive it forward.
We’re living in unprecedented times.
The Covid-19 outbreak has driven a seismic change in shopping habits, with checkout free stores, automation in the supply chain, rapid delivery services, and the metaverse making waves.
Such disruption requires new ways of problem solving and thought leaders who can both evangelise and execute on the likes of digital transformation and omnichannel success.
Which is where the RTIH Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List comes in, presented, we should stress, in no particular order.
We hope you enjoy reading through it and, as always, if you would like to give feedback or believe that there are some glaring omissions, please feel free to get in touch here.
Download the list in pdf format here.
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‘Writing history together’: Carrefour chooses Pricer as exclusive electronic shelf labels partner
Carrefour has picked Pricer as its exclusive supplier of electronic shelf label (ESL) solutions for the next three years.
This covers new installations and replacements as the French retail giant looks to boost its store automation and communication solution.
The deal with Carrefour, which has been a Pricer customer for the past 20 years, contains no commitments with regard to volumes or amounts.
"Due to their outstanding service, we have selected Pricer as our partner for the next three years for Carrefour in France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Romania and Poland,” says Miguel Angel Gonzalez Gisbert, Global CTDO and Digital Transformation at Carrefour.
“This new step of collaboration will improve our business through the latest generation of ESL features, central for critical areas like pricing, promo, automation or retail media.”
Trigo lands in France with Auchan Retail autonomous store launch near Paris
Israeli firm Trigo has announced its arrival in France with the launch of an autonomous store at Auchan Retail’s corporate headquarters near Paris.
In an online post, Michael Gabay, Trigo CEO, said: “In Auchan, we found partners who share our commitment to innovation and delivering superior in-store experiences.”
“The new store, named Auchan Go le Lab, will, as its name suggests, serve as a hub of research and innovation for the Auchan team. From this launchpad, our partnership will continue to grow and innovate.”
tokenproof and adidas announce long-term partnership with CONFIRMED mobile app integration
adidas, through its adidas /// Studio initiative (aka Three Stripe Studio), has teamed up with tokenproof, to brings its brand to the latter’s Web3 community of NFT holders through a token-gated access point on the adidas CONFIRMED app.
As part of a three-year partnership, the two companies rolled out their first collaborative in-app efforts this week by integrating tokenproof’s authentication technology into the CONFIRMED app, which houses the brand’s most exclusive drops, products, collaborations and experiences.
The integration will allow ALTS by adidas NFT holders to access holder only collaborations and purchase certain designer merchandise.
It is part of the latest phase of the ongoing ALTS by adidas experience, which tokenproof has previously supported through live event token-gating and the development of a new “offers” feature used to deploy personalised offers to tokenproof users, which adidas got first access to.
It’s a feature available to all brands, whether they are Web2 or Web3-based, that allows them to airdrop special in-store or online offers or discounts to users’ tokenproof app that are compatible with brands’ native PoS systems.
Causing a stir on social media: RTIH’s biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn right now
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 Retail Technology Show 2023, Carrefour, Pricer, Autonomo, CircularX, Red Ant, and Archive.
Payments, omnichannel, and the meh-taverse: RTIH brings you six key takeaways from Retail Technology Show 2023
Retail Technology Show took place last month at London Olympia. And it was really rather good. Here are our six key takeaways from a fantastic two days of innovative exhibitors and thought provoking conference sessions.
3D in stores: Why retailers are turning to this innovative technology as a growth strategy
Retailers are investing in store-based 3D experiences to increase basket size and expedite the purchase process, says Leigh Davidson is Managing Director - UK, Europe and International at 3D Cloud by Marxent.
Has the pace of retail technology innovation overtaken the pace of consumer desire and demand?
Check out this insightful article by Mike Cadden, an experienced retail IT director and CIO with 25 years’ experience running technology teams and strategic delivery for many leading UK and international retailers.
Retail Technology Show 2023 report: Conference panel predicts a multitude of payment options
“Consumers will have so many more payment options in the future,” said Gareth Hughes, Executive Director Retail Technology North America, Estée Lauder, during a conference session on the last day of Retail Technology Show (27th April) at London Olympia.
Panellists from Morrisons, Studio Retail, part of Fraser Group, and others debated the future of contactless, card, digital wallet and currency payments, tokenisation, and the ecosystem likely to emerge at the end of this decade as trends such as Open Banking accelerate.
Interchange fees will see considerable change over the next five years and biometric usage for security purposes will rise, predicted Hughes at Retail Technology Show 2023’s concluding payments panel.
Hughes added that the buy now pay later (BNPL) explosion seen with Klarna and its ilk in recent times will face new challenges: “As more regulation is imminent and higher interest rates might hamper them. This will impact their pricing discussions with merchants.”
“Bank-to-bank payments – sometimes called account to account – will also rise,” said Hughes. This should cut costs and be a boon for retailers as expensive card usage declines.
Starring Wayve, InPost, and Valtech: April’s biggest retail technology plays at a glance
RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, deployments and pilots from April, including John Lewis Partnership, Asda, Currys, Sports Direct, IKI, Specsavers, and Walmart.
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