Retail technology news on innovation, integration, rollout and the people behind developing retail technology systems. Be it payments, supply chain or chiller cabinets we cover the bits & bytes of retail tech.
Mercaux today announced a pilot project with the UK’s leading specialist health food retailer, Holland & Barrett. The pilot will support Holland & Barrett’s colleagues in delivering a highly specialised wellbeing service to customers visiting stores. The deployment of Mercaux’s
Alida’s history is steeped in helping iconic brands like Buzzfeed, LinkedIn and Red Bull change their business for the better by uncovering customer motivations, opinions, and sentiment through an award-winning customer insights platform. Now, the newly refocused brand will build
Market information is crucial for Colruyt Group. The innovative retail company is the market leader in Belgium, responsible for established brands including Colruyt Lowest Prices, DATS 24, OKay, Bio-Planet, Dreambaby and Spar. To further strengthen its position, the business invests
Symphony RetailAI, the leading global provider of integrated AI-enabled marketing, merchandising, and supply chain solutions for FMCG retailers and manufacturers, today announced the signing of a significant agreement with Intermarché and Netto.
Board International, the leading provider of the#1decision-making platform, has announced that luxury lifestyle brand Stella McCartney is working with Board to transform financial consolidation and lease accounting.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has expanded its partnership with Morrisons, a leading supermarket chain in the UK, through a five-year contract for application management services, data services and cyber security
Launching publicly next month, London fintech start-up HyperJar may well be the antidote to the British High Street’s sharp decline, the company claims.
Austrian grocery chain, MPREIS, has teamed up with headless commerce specialists, emporix, to expand its brand online with the launch of a new digital storefront.
Central England Co-op is trialling the use of colleague body cameras as part of its ongoing effort to keep staff safe and help drive down crime in stores.
Smeg, the Italian manufacturer of domestic appliances known for its retro style fridge’s and stylish electrical appliances, has launched its new online store with the support of global e-commerce platform specialist Kooomo and managed by its sister company, Zerogrey. The
It goes without saying that the retail sector has been hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic, and the recently introduced government guidelines place even more pressure on already strained retailers. Using years of expertise and its advanced Deep Learning technology,
Following on from the successful reopening of the iconic London destination’s popular stores and cafés in June, which saw the implementation of a number of heightened hygiene measures, the station has now revealed plans to provide an even safer environment
X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer that operates the Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, and Karusel retail chains, has launched a contactless shopping system that is accessible via mobile devices. The Express Scan technology was developed in-house by X5 to boost
With e-commerce sales in Europe up nearly 20% from pre-pandemic levels and customer behaviour continuing to move online, digital customer experience expert, Lokulus, has today announced the launch of Pulse - an efficient, artificial intelligence (AI) email solution created to
Danish fintech Blocser has partnered with top UK card manufacturer allpay.cards with designs on the fast-growing gig economy. Blocser has pinned their Butterfly Card to one of its biggest market moves yet – the UK offer to the near 5million now
No wallet, smartphone or credit card needed. European customers will be able to enter a shop, choose what they want and pay without having any of the above with them.
IBM has announced the launch of Watson Advertising Weather Targeting, a new suite of triggers designed for marketers to help them make the connection between weather and product sales actionable at scale without the use of third-party cookies or identifiers.
Today sustainable fashion app - Nuw - announces the expansion of its services across the UK and Ireland to empower people to reduce their environmental impact of fashion, and give love to the clothes that already exist in our
Hitachi Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, and TJ Morris, owner of Home Bargains, have today announced they have entered into a technology partnership to help keep customers safe against Covid-19. New motion sensor technology from Hitachi will be
The UK’s largest ‘on-demand’ grocery delivery service Beelivery announces that it will create a further 20,000 UK jobs in the run up to Christmas to meet growing demand for its services.
Charlotte Tilbury, the global luxury beauty and skincare brand, has deployed Looker, the business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform from Google Cloud, to accelerate its omni-channel growth and further support the customer-centricity and agility of the business.
Global e-commerce consultancy Wunderman Thompson Commerce has developed and debuted Shell Helix’s first-ever Direct to Consumer website in Egypt.
Imagination has been working on an exciting new initiative for Ford of Europe which broke on 2 September, a brand new platform named Ford Horizon which will be the home for the automotive giant’s virtual experiences and events.
Deloitte Digital and Trax, today announced an alliance to make large-scale implementation and integration of Trax’s Retail Watch shelf monitoring solution available to Deloitte’s grocery retail customer base in Spain.
Launching today as part of London Tech Week, Square, Mastercard and the Falkland Islands Government will announce a new partnership, Connecting the Falklands, solving one of the greatest challenges facing the Islands' small and medium-sized businesses - accepting card and
