The brutal truth about rapid food delivery: 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 Walmart, TalkShopLIve, Brightpick, Rohlik Group, Domino’s Pizza, Marks and Spencer, Emplifi, Orium, Asda, and Renovotec.
Too fast, too furious: The story of Gorillas exposes brutal truth of rapid grocery delivery industry
A new movie covers the rise and fall of rapid delivery firm Gorillas, which last year was acquired by fellow quick commerce player Getir.
And it exposes the brutal truth of an industry that promised much but ultimately failed to deliver the goods.
Walmart becomes first retailer to activate new TalkShopLive Shoppable Simulcast product
Live commerce platform TalkShopLive has launched Shoppable Simulcast in the US.
This allows sellers to simulcast their shoppable livestreams to their Facebook business page as a Facebook Live, while keeping the shopping element intact.
Walmart, which has worked with TalkShopLive on over 150 live shopping experiences, will be the first to activate the Shoppable Simulcast product with a live show on 20th June featuring The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond.
Drummond, who has held several shopping events with TalkShopLive, will be launching her new furniture line.
The livestream will appear on TalkShopLive, Walmart’s Facebook page, Walmart.com/live and The Pioneer Woman’s Facebook page.
Brightpick robots to automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch for e-grocer Rohlik Group
Brightpick has completed a nine-month pilot of its robotic solution in the Prague fulfilment centre of European e-grocer Rohlik Group.
Rohlik now plans to roll-out this out across multiple warehouses in 2023 and 2024, starting with Munich in July and continuing with Frankfurt, Vienna, Prague and other fulfilment centres.
The solution includes Brightpick Autopicker and Brightpick Dispatcher autonomous mobile robots and enables Rohlik to fully automate picking, consolidation and dispatch of orders.
Rohlik has more than 1.5 million e-grocery customers and 12 million orders per year.
Once fully deployed in the Munich warehouse, Brightpick will be able to dispatch over 1,000 order totes (bins) per hour and 5,000 completed orders per day (an order may contain multiple totes).
Domino’s Pizza claims QSR brand first as it launches Domino’s Pinpoint Delivery service in the US
Domino’s Pizza is introducing Domino’s Pinpoint Delivery in the US, a new technology that allows customers to receive a delivery in such places as parks, baseball fields and beaches, just in time for the start of summer.
Customers with the Domino’s app can select the service, drop a pin on the map and get pizza delivered pretty much anywhere, the retailer says.
“We’re proud to be the first quick service restaurant brand in the US to deliver food to customers with the drop of a pin,” says Christopher Thomas-Moore, Domino’s Senior Vice President – Chief Digital Officer.
“We’re always striving to make customers’ experiences even better and more convenient, and Domino’s Pinpoint Delivery does exactly that.”
Convenience store in Bestway Retail chain implements age estimation solution from Innovative Technology
Central Convenience Store in Southampton has installed AI driven biometric technology from Innovative Technology (ITL) to help with checks for age restricted goods.
It is the latest store in the Bestway Retail chain to implement the tech following a UK government trial and previous deployments in Costcutter and Bargain Booze.
Marks and Spencer taps Emplifi tech as it launches online suit fit service at Hedge End store
Marks and Spencer’s Online Suit Fit service is now live at its Hedge End store in Hampshire.
This is powered by Emplifi technology.
In a LinkedIn post, Amy Traves, In-Store Experiences Manager at M&S, said: “I have spent the last week with the fantastic suit fitting team at our Hedge End store to extend our online services to include Suit Fit.”
“We are excited to now connect our online customers via two-way video with the same expert advice and help from our colleagues as you would find in our stores.”
Customers can connect via the retailer’s suit and formalwear product pages or here.
This lines up alongside an online bra fit service and online furniture consultations offering.
Traves concluded: “Thanks as always to Charlie Barry, Customer Success Manager at Emplifi (formerly Go Instore) and the team at Emplifi for all of their support.”
Putting innovation front and centre: RTIH runs you through the week's coolest retail technology plays
RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including Astra Tech, AiFi, Cleveron, 3D Cloud by Marxent, Serve Robotics, Perfect Corp., J.Crew, and Obsess.
Orium launches Composable UI project to accelerate the adoption of composable commerce
Orium, a composable commerce specialist based in North America, has launched Composable UI, its open source composable commerce accelerator.
Built on the foundations of other accelerators from Orium, this project is designed to help brands learn how to build a modern composable e-commerce storefronts with best-in-class technologies and best practices.
Composable UI was built to help brands move towards a modular architecture based on MACH technology principles.
It provides a full end-to-end e-commerce experience, with the aim of accelerating the learning journey for architects, developers, and designers through open source code, documentation, and a collaborative community of experts.
Let’s get physical: Watsons opens over 1,400 new stores in Asia market during Covid-19 pandemic
Watsons, the flagship health and beauty brand of A.S. Watson Group, opened over 1,400 new stores across Asia amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and last week Watsons Malaysia went live with its 700th store in the market.
Asda hails new Renovotec Innovation Centre for companies operating throughout supply chain
Renovotec, a UK-based provider of end-to-end AIDC technology solutions and services for organisations operating throughout the supply chain, has launched an innovation centre at its 6,288 sq. ft facility based at the firm’s head office in Newton-Le-Willows, near Warrington.
Open to all customers and visitors, this showcases Renovotec’s latest solutions and features dedicated industry zones for manufacturing, warehousing, transport and logistics, healthcare and retail.
RBR research flags major investment in self-checkout as demand grows beyond grocery sector
2022 was the second highest year for self-checkout shipments globally, according to a report from RBR.
More than 193,000 units were delivered, slightly below the record set the year before, largely owing to weak activity in China caused by ongoing Covid-19 restrictions; global shipments excluding China rose by 2%.
Major supermarket and hypermarket chains have long been self-checkout proponents, but increasingly the technology is being deployed by other types of retailers. In recent years, major home improvement chains and fashion brands such as Leroy Merlin and Zara are among the firms to roll-out the tech.
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