Smart Retail News

Amazon starts drone deliveries in UK

Amazon has started its first drone delivery service in the UK, operating out of its fulfilment centre in Darlington. The Prime Air service will use Amazon’s latest MK30 drone, [...]

NRF sees AI becoming operational reality for retail

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is seeing AI becoming an operational reality for the retail sector. A study at the end of last year found that while 77% of [...]

Google enables virtual try-on for OTB brands

Google Cloud is helping Italy’s OTB Group enable virtual try-on for clothes shoppers of its brands including Diesel, Jil Sander, Maison Margiela, Marni and Viktor & Rolf. The initiative [...]

Lidl pilots Scan & Go in Luxembourg

European supermarket chain Lidl has this month deployed its AI-powered Scan & Go system at three stores in Luxembourg. It is testing the technology at pilot stores in Dudelange, [...]

HaStock to deploy 2000 Cust2Mate smart shopping carts

HaStock, a fast-growing home goods retail chain with over 50 stores in Israel, plans to deploy 2000 Cust2Mate smart shopping carts, beginning in Q3 2026, at three stores in [...]

Tageos helps retailers embed NFC functionality

French RFID specialist Tageos is helping brands and retailers embed discreet NFC functionality into packaging without altering its appearance. Tageos worked with UK firm Pragmatic Semiconductor, a pioneer in [...]

Cellular PoS terminals to push 250m by 2029

The installed base of cellular PoS terminals will reach 247 million in 2029, according to market watcher Berg Insight. Cellular connectivity has become a popular option for PoS terminals [...]

Unitech mobile computer aids retail data capture

Taiwanese firm Unitech Electronics has introduced the EA530 enterprise mobile computer for automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) applications in retail and logistics environments. As digital transformation accelerates across [...]

Adobe and Tesco set up joint innovation lab

UK supermarket chain Tesco plans to use Adobe AI and agentic AI capabilities to interpret and anticipate customers’ needs for a more personalised shopping experience. The Tesco x Adobe [...]

FairPrice rolls out AI with help from Google

Singapore supermarket chain FairPrice Group is rolling out AI innovations developed with Google Cloud to improve the shopping experience for customers by the end of this year. These include [...]

Sobeys deploys Pricer electronic shelf labels

Canadian supermarket chain Sobeys is deploying Pricer’s latest electronic shelf label (ESL) technology and the cloud-based Pricer Plaza platform across 300 to 350 stores. Swedish firm Pricer has announced [...]

Cognizant and Google ease agentic AI for retailers

New Jersey-based Cognizant and Google Cloud are bringing agentic AI to retail’s most critical customer moments with Gemini Enterprise. The offering aims to give retailers a purpose-built path from [...]