A stunning catering area with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the Lakeside, St Giles Church and the cityscape of London.| www.barbican.org.uk
Instacart reports that its AI powered Caper Carts are being deployed across more Schnucks locations in Missouri and, for the first time, into Illinois. The roll-out brings smart carts to five new stores and introduces a key new hardware feature: a lower tray, designed to help customers easily shop f| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
JD.com's 618 Grand Promotion kicked off at 8:00 PM (UTC+8) on 30th May. In the first hour, GMV, total orders, and active shoppers all increased by more than 200% year-over-year (YoY). 20,000+ brands recorded over threefold growth in GMV YoY, according to the Chinese e-commerce giant.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Udemy, an AI powered skills development platform, has announced a suite of new AI Packages designed to help organizations and professionals develop AI fluency.| EdTech Innovation Hub
AKYLADE has announced the launch of its latest artificial intelligence-based certification - the AI Security Practitioner (A/AISP).| EdTech Innovation Hub
The growth of full self-driving cars poses a big threat to DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats, according to Brittain Ladd, a supply chain consultant and former Amazon executive. In a LinkedIn post, he observes that OpenAI's Operator, an AI agent that can browse the web on a customer's behalf, has Do| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
A panel of experts from Selfridges, Wayfair and Team Internet share their experiences of using Extended Reality at London Tech Week.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Invent.ai has been selected by Five Below to optimise demand forecasting and replenishment through AI driven technology. Five Below currently operates over 1,800 stores in the United States. It needed an inventory optimisation solution that could account for its diverse product categories and invent| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Retail Technology Innovation of the Week is a series brought to you by RTIH, and sponsored by 3D Cloud, highlighting stand out deployments, launches, and initiatives by retailers and tech suppliers. And this week we’re focusing on IKI Lithuania, a supermarket chain owned by REWE Group, that has laun| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Buy now pay later specialist Klarna has partnered with Nift, an AI powered gifting platform, to deliver personally tailored gifts to shoppers. “We constantly look for innovative ways to elevate our customer experience by making shopping with us more personal, pleasant and rewarding,” says David Sand| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
VusionGroup has announced a partnership with Carrefour to trial what is pitched as a new generation of connected stores powered by EdgeSense technology. Carrefour becomes the first major European grocer to adopt the tech, following its deployment by Walmart in the US. Combining AI, computer vision,| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
IKI Lithuania, a supermarket chain owned by REWE Group, has launched AI driven age estimation technology in its stores. It worked with StrongPoint, IKI and Yoti on the project.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Bloomreach has released a new research report, How AI is Teaching Us To Shop Like Humans Again, which examines AI’s underlying impact on consumer shopping habits and expectations. Comprising data from two surveys, each conducted with more than 1,000 consumers in the United States, this found the maj| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Pinterest is rolling out a suite of new AI driven ad solutions, with the aim of making it easier for advertisers to tap into emerging trends and meet consumers at every stage of their shopping journey.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Debenhams Group - home to brands including PrettyLittleThing, Boohoo, BoohooMAN, Karen Millen, and Debenhams - has implemented AI at scale to optimise product pricing and promotions. It has partnered with Peak, an AI platform from UiPath, to roll-out intelligent automation across its brand portfolio| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Te UK and Europe are increasingly becoming more influential in tech - here’s how a panel at London Tech Week considered how this trend can be solidified and developed in the coming years.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Tastewise, a platform for the food and beverage industry, has announced a $50 million Series B to scale its generative AI powered marketing and sales tools for global brands. The investment was led by TELUS Global Ventures, with participation from Duo Partners, Peakbridge, Disruptive AI, and PICO, b| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
The best technology supports people and improves experience. The worst just adds noise and becomes someone else’s problem to clean up next year. So says Graham Broomfield, COO at Neve Jewels Group.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Lula Commerce, a provider of AI driven digital commerce solutions for convenience retailers, reports the launch of United Pacific's flagship convenience store brands, Rocket and Alta Convenience, on its platform.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Speaking at London Tech Week, AWS’ Tanuja Randery shares her vision for the future of retail thanks to the “transformative” power of AI.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Rohlik Group, a European online grocer and tech specialist founded in 2014 in the Czech Republic, is launching Veloq, an AI driven grocery fulfillment platform that has powered its growth across five markets.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Algolia, an AI native search and discovery platform, has announced a collaboration with Oh Polly, an online destination for women’s fashion.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Wonder, a food delivery and technology startup fronted by former Walmart U.S. eCommerce executive, Marc Lore, has opened its 50th and 51st locations, a milestone, it claims, that no other restuarant company has reached in as fast a time.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
No matter how sophisticated AI tools become, the fashion industry will always need designers. So says Marco Marchesi, CTO at digital fashion house The Fabricant.| Retail Technology Innovation Hub
El Rio Grande Latin Market, a grocery chain specialising in Latin American products with locations across Texas, has selected RELEX Solutions to help with its pricing and promotions optimisation strategy. By moving away from manual processes to an AI powered solution, it aims to offer more competiti| Retail Technology Innovation Hub