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Office Depot has announced the launch of its 15-Minute Pickup Promise, now available at Office Depot and OfficeMax stores across the US. Customers can pick up qualifying online or mobile orders in-store or curbside in 15 minutes.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Simbe, whose Store Intelligence platform includes the Tally autonomous shelf-scanning robot, has appointed Jane Azzinaro as Director of Client Strategy and Value Realisation for EMEA. Her CV includes stints at Cognizant, Kearney, and Deloitte.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Time is fast running out to enter the seventh edition of the RTIH Innovation Awards, sponsored by Vista Technology Support, 3D Cloud, EdTech Innovation Hub, and Retail Technology Show. Deadline for submissions is Friday, 19th September. The awards celebrate global tech innovation in a fast moving om| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
finmid reports that its embedded lending infrastructure is now available in 30 European markets. The company has added Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Romania, Iceland and Switzerland to the list of countries it is serving.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Claimit, whose AI powered platform automates courier claims for e-commerce companies, reports that share that Bart Swanson has joined the startup as a strategic advisor. “Bart is currently an advisor to Horizons Ventures and serves on the board at Zoom, Impossible Foods, Otter.ai as well as having h| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Sebastian Green is joining Primis CX as CTO. His CV includes stints at Club L London, Fox Group International, CurentBody, and Chef Works. “This is a massive step towards our future goals and vision for the company; more so as we double down in the MENA region for 2026,” says Rebecca Griffiths, Foun| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Portugal-based grocery retailer, MC, part of Sonae Group, has switched to StrongPoint’s Order Picking solution. This will used across all Continente grocery stores that process e-commerce orders, as well as in Wells stores, a health, wellness and beauty retail chain. The solution will be implemented| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
alentr, a contextual AI pricing platform, has announced the appointment of Meghan Stabler as Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Stabler, who previously held senior marketing roles at BigCommerce and ThriveCart, will spearhead the company’s marketing, partner management and brand strategy| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Fabric is launching a new AI native platform for warehouse fulfillment for retailers and grocers. It claims that Orchestra enables retailers to cut costs, reduce shrink, and deliver better customer experiences, without adding complexity or training burdens. It aims to help teams onboard new employee| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
The Fressnapf Group, a European supplier of pet supplies with over 2,750 stores in 15 European countries, is taking the next step in its digital transformation push as it migrates its store services to the cloud-based retail platform GK CLOUD4RETAIL.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
DoorDash has announced the roll-out of all night delivery (9pm-8am) for Waffle House, powered exclusively by its Drive on-Demand offering. Customers can place orders directly through order.wafflehouse.com or the company’s mobile app.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Greeting card specialist thortful has announced plans to scale its Face Swap tool after customers completed more than 250,000 swaps since its launch in January 2025. In what it previously called an industry first, the solution allows users to merge photographs of faces into its cards using facial ma| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Jetbeep, which provides software for autonomous parcel lockers, has inked a five-year strategic partnership with Omniva, the national postal operator of Estonia, providing technology for its Picapac network of community lockers in the Baltics.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
MetaRouter reports that Nikhil Raj, its current President, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. He brings to the role over two decades of experience in retail media, data and consumer technology underpinned by machine learning. Raj co-founded Walmart’s ads business, WMX (now Walmart Connect)| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Dobbies Garden Centres is working with Adyen on a project covering payments in-store and online, supporting retail, restaurants and experiences. In doing so, it says that it is gaining real-time insights that enable colleagues to resolve payment queries in under ten minutes (down from up to three ho| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Paula Bobbett is this week starting a new position as Chief Data and Digital Officer at Boots UK. She has been at the UK health and beauty retailer for almost five years and moves up from the role of Chief Digital Officer.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern retail. As the industry moves from pilot projects to full scale deployment, the question is no longer whether to use AI, but how to implement it efficiently and reliably across stores and operations. For many retailers, the ans| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Manesh Nana has left Unilever (where he served as CFO - Foods North America) to join Wonder, a food delivery and technology startup founded in 2018 and fronted by former Walmart U.S. eCommerce executive, Marc Lore. He is taking on the role of VP of Strategic Finance, having spent almost four years a| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Strongbow has partnered with marketing agency, Purple Goat, part of WPP Media, to become the first major alcohol brand in the world to add an assistive technology feature directly to its packaging. Strongbow’s cider products now feature a NaviLens QR code, a smartphone readable marker that helps bl| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
The seventh edition of the RTIH Innovation Awards is now open for entries. The awards celebrate global tech innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
In a UK first, Morrisons is testing out Simbe’s Tally in-store shelf scanning robot. Thanks to Toby Pickard, Retail Futures Senior Partner at IGD, and a member of the judging panels for the RTIH AI in Retail Awards and 2025 RTIH Innovation Awards, for bringing this to our attention.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Last night, we announced the winners from the 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards, sponsored by Vista Technology Support, CADS, 3D Cloud, SCALA, Brightpearl by Sage’s Lightning 50, Retail Technology Show 2025, and Business France. Our 2024 hall of fame entrants were revealed during an event which took place| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
We’re pleased to announce that Lucy Porter will host our 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards Ceremony, to be held at RIBA’s 66 Portland Place HQ in Central London on Thursday, 21st November.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub