2024 RTIH retail technology awards: Most Promising Innovation finalists include Snapchat and i love it

We’re pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 RTIH Awards Most Promising Innovation category.

We received a record number of submissions this year across 20+ categories and many fantastic examples of the continued resilience and dynamism of the retail space during hugely challenging times.

It’s now over to our judging panel who will decide the winners to be announced at the 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards ceremony, which will take place at RIBA’s 66 Portland Place HQ in Central London.

The event will be held on Thursday, 21st November and consist of a drinks reception, three course meal, and awards ceremony presided over by comedian Lucy Porter.

Congratulations to all of our finalists.

To book your place at the 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards Ceremony on Thursday, 21st November, click here.

Most Promising Innovation shortlist as follows:

Fixtuur

Fixtuur transforms online shopping with immersive 3D and AR visualisations, bridging the gap between digital browsing and in-store experiences.

Its platform empowers customers to explore, build, and plan products by viewing every angle, customising features, and visualising items in their own spaces, boosting confidence and reducing returns.

Hugo Boss and Epam

Epam was tasked with crafting the next generation of customer loyalty in fashion, enabling access to a premium, personal and always evolving space of benefits and experiences, exclusive to Hugo Boss members.

A membership programme blends traditional, transactional loyalty with behavioural loyalty leveraging blockchain technology to be truly data driven.

With a soft launch in the UK in June 2024, Epam has introduced four traditional membership levels in combination with experience led membership tokens, which always come with a clear value exchange to the customer, being either access and/or utility to money can’t buy experiences.

i love it

i love it is where real recommendations meet real rewards. No more mindless scrolling or unsolicited ads - just products you’ll love, shared by people you trust.

Snapchat - Snap Street

Snapchat announced the launch of a new immersive high street experience, Snap Street, in East London this October.

The Ely’s Yard building in Brick Lane was transformed into an actual indoor high street with shop fronts showing off the augmented reality experiences available on Snapchat, curated by brands like Depop, Boots, and Cosmopolitan.

Tahina

Tahina has released the final designs for its autonomous food store which is set to launch in London during Q2 2025. The flagship store will be fully autonomous via a range of technology, including AI, intelligent weight shelves, motion detector sensors and cloud computing.

The New Face

Harper Collective, a sustainable lifestyle travel brand co-founded by Jaden Smith and Sebastian Manes, is partnering with French tech firm The New Face. Breaking away from what the pair label ‘pixelated and basic digital platforms of the past’, they have crafted an interactive 360-degree online world.

And the winner is…

Join us at RIBA’s 66 Portland Place HQ in Central London on Thursday, 21st November to celebrate retail technology innovation and our 2024 winners.

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