Overview: Retail Technology
Digital wine assistant guides customers to the ideal bottle of wine
01/08/2023
Colruyt Lowest Prices to test a digital ‘wine assistant’ in six branches in the coming weeks. The assistant will take the shape of a large touchscreen with software that allows customers to make informed wine choices.
Schnucks and Instacart expand with smart carts
31/07/2023
Schnuck Markets, Inc. and Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, today announced the companies will expand their omnichannel partnership by deploying Caper Carts, Instacart’s smart carts, in select stores.
Automated retail: Selfly Store introduces intelligent freezer
04/07/2023
In April, the vending company Selfly Store introduced its latest product: the Selfly Freezer. We spoke to CMO Malin Östman about first experiences with the smart freezer and the potential of unmanned shopping.
Carrefour integrates OpenAI technologies and launches a generative AI-powered shopping experience
16/06/2023
Carrefour has launched Hopla, a chatbot based on ChatGPT which will be integrated into the Carrefour.fr website. Customers are able to use this natural-language AI to help them with their daily shopping.
Tech innovations for urban shopping convenience
30/05/2023
The Belgian Colruyt Group is testing various innovative store and shopping concepts. Much of this revolves around technology-supported shopping convenience in cities.
Digital twins in retail
17/05/2023
So-called digital twins are designed to enable decision-makers and employees in companies to run through scenarios and thus make better decisions.
Drone delivery: When a parcel gets its wings
02/05/2023
So-called digital twins are designed to enable decision-makers and employees in companies to run through scenarios and thus make better decisions.
Retail Technology Stage @ EuroShop 2023
13/03/2023
The Retail Technology Stage at EuroShop featured many technological solutions for the retail sector. Suppliers and users discussed current use cases.
This robot sells chocolates
22/02/2023
Virtualizing shopping experiences
22/02/2023
Avatars are not just digital images of ourselves, but a new form of virtual identity. They enable us to move around in digital spaces and thus create new experiences.