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Dahua AI-powered wireless cameras for small retail

AIoT video specialist Dahua Technology is launching a set of AI-enhanced wireless cameras designed for use in small retail locations and restaurants. The Dahua Wireless Series features the Turret, Picoo, Bullet, [...]

LinkieBuy joins Tencent Smart Retail programme

Chinese online retailer LinkieBuy has joined the “Thousand Domains Program” of Tencent Smart Retail. It has also officially integrated into Tencent’s smart ecosystem of retail service providers. LinkieBuy will [...]

Carrefour deploys A2Z smart shopping trolleys

Israeli company A2Z Smart Technologies is to supply smart carts to Carrefour’s hypermarket and supermarket division in France, starting with an initial delivery of 2000 of shopping trolleys. Carrefour [...]

Geissler’s rolls out Instacart smart trolleys

Geissler’s Supermarkets, a seven-store retailer with locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts, will be the first grocer to replace most of its traditional shopping carts with Instacart’s smart Caper Carts. [...]

Walmart opens 117 updated stores across USA

Last Friday, Walmart had the largest single-day rollout of grand re-openings in the company’s history at 117 stores nationwide. The grand re-opening projects represent more than $0.5bn in capital [...]

Brain and Dane develop inventory-scanning robots

Californian artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company Brain and Minnesota-based Dane Technologies are working together to develop inventory-scanning retail robots. The platform, designed with a modular architecture, is the [...]

Żabka Polska opens hybrid autonomous store

Polish convenience store chain Żabka Polska has opened a hybrid autonomous and non-autonomous store in Warsaw. Żabka Non Stop is a store that operates from 6am to 11pm like [...]

Nayax acquires Retail Pro for $36.5m

Israeli payments and loyalty platform Nayax has acquired California-based Retail Pro, a specialist in retail point-of-sale (PoS) software, for $36.5m. The acquisition should expand the scope of Nayax’s retail [...]

Electronic shelf labels to see 18.2% CAGR

The global electronic shelf label (ESL) market is set to see a CAGR of 18.2%, reaching $8.37bn by 2030, according to Insight Partners (www.theinsightpartners.com). The market size was valued [...]

Sodexo lets Millwall fans serve their own beer

Last month, fans at London football club Millwall’s match against Blackburn Rovers were first to try the EBar Beerwall, a rapid self-serve bar that delivers fans keg-fresh and perfectly [...]

Voluspa employs Descartes warehouse and shipping tech

California-based home fragrance retailer Voluspa is using Descartes’ warehouse management and shipping technology to accelerate order fulfilment and distribution to wholesale and online consumers across the USA, Canada and [...]

Hy-Vee deploys Samsung CMS across stores

US supermarket chain Hy-Vee’s RedMedia retail media network is one of the first businesses to deploy the Samsung VXT content management system (CMS) for digital signage. Hy-Vee is an [...]