Heinz sauce dispenser monitors flavour preferences
Food giant Kraft Heinz has unveiled a customisable and IoT-enabled digital sauce dispenser that lets consumers personalise their own flavour creations. Developed in six months from initial brief to [...]
Baseball stadium uses Amazon One age verification
Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team, has become the first sports venue to use Amazon One for age verification. Amazon One is a palm-based identity service [...]
Checkpoint protects shelves against sweeping
Checkpoint Systems has introduced a shelf-management system to help retailers guard against stock sweeping, where multiple products are stolen in one go. The ShrinkShelf anti-sweeping product comes from the [...]
Walmart fulfilment centre uses autonomous carts
Walmart is using autonomous carts at its first high-tech market fulfilment centre to enhance the shopping experience for customers. The fulfilment centre is at a store in Bentonville, Arkansas [...]
Incentivio raises $10m to boost AI in restaurants
Massachusetts-based Incentivio has raised $10m to help restaurants use AI to drive revenue and diner engagement. The funding round follows 300% year-over-year growth and adoption from thousands of restaurants [...]
Appier lets retailers personalise customer experiences
Taiwanese AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Appier is working with retail and ecommerce brands in south-east Asia to help them deliver personalised experiences for their customers. It aims to transform [...]
Acuative networks Bassett furniture stores
New Jersey-based Acuative is providing Bassett Furniture with networking communications and security technology across its 60 corporately-owned retail stores in the USA. Acuative will update all Bassett stores with [...]
Starship robots deliver groceries in Yorkshire
Robots from Estonian company Starship Technologies are delivering groceries for UK convenience store chain Co-op in Wakefield, Yorkshire. The service will initially be available to 13,000 residents across 6500 [...]
Google generative AI boosts Wendy’s drive-through
Burger chain Wendy’s is piloting Google Cloud’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create a quicker and more consistent drive-through ordering experience. Wendy’s FreshAI is designed to revolutionise the [...]
Lindex rolls out Nedap RFID to 400 stores
Swedish fashion retailer Lindex is rolling out RFID to its more than 400 stores across the Nordics, UK and eastern Europe using technology from Dutch company Nedap. Lindex aims [...]
Cantaloupe puts AI in self-service checkout
Pennsylvania-based digital payments and software services company Cantaloupe introduced a self-service AI product range at last week’s National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA) show in Atlanta. The newly branded Cantaloupe [...]
IoT in retail to see 28.4% CAGR, says Grand View
The global IoT in retail market is expected to reach $297.44bn by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 28.4% from 2023 to 2030, according to Grand View Research. This [...]
