RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, deployments and pilots from the past seven days.

UK home and lighting retail group LSE Retail has switched to AI product discovery solution, Klevu, to power on-site e-commerce search and category merchandising on its Iconic Lights brand.

Italian luxury brand, Salvatore Ferragamo, has chosen Medallia Experience Cloud to improve the customer experience across its physical stores and e-commerce sites.

UK retailer Furniture Village has gone live with Hullabalook’s Stickers technology on its online store.

This aims to increase product discovery by visualising how things look together.

Swedish skintech venture FOREO has announced a buy now, pay later partnership with Clearpay.

Its UK customers will now be able to spread the cost of purchases over four instalments.

Iceland based grocery retailer, Samkaup, is partnering with RELEX Solutions to automate and unify its space and assortment planning. 

The tie up covers Samkaup’s 60 stores and is RELEX’s first customer in Iceland.

Camile Thai Kitchen is planning to raise €10 million as part of “a technology-centric strategy”. 

The chain claims to be the first in Europe to deliver its menu by drone and has plans to automate its kitchen operations with robotics in 2021.

Crocs has deployed Aptos’ cloud-based customer engagement and merchandise management solutions.

The project spans 11 countries (United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, France, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, Japan and China).

Czech beer brand, Staropramen, has deployed Zetes’ warehouse execution solution ZetesMedea.

LG has worked with Retail Marketing Group to provide its online customers with a live demo tool.

As it looks to grow its presence in the US and European markets, linen brand Piglet has opted for the e-commerce combo of Brightpearl and Shopify.

Piglet says that it will benefit from full visibility, alongside centralised inventory and order management, real-time product and financial reporting, and a robust platform that is built for scalability. 

After deploying its first Simbe Robotics’ Tally robot in 2019, Carrefour UAE is now adding 11 more across select stores to support with stock management and control.  

Einride and Lidl Sweden are commencing operation of a warehouse to store electric transport system that has been in development since April of last year. 

All electric trucks will operate from Rosersberg outside Stockholm. 

Equipped with Einride's control and monitoring software, they will travel 324 km per day, making deliveries to five stores in the Stockholm region, with an average of 104 pallets per store.

Ahold Delhaize, the third largest grocery retailer in the US, is to build an automated e-commerce fulfilment centre in Philadelphia, leveraging AutoStore microfulfilment technology via a Swisslog solution.

Cult Beauty has launched a MatchMe digital foundation finder, powered by AI technology.

This has been developed in partnership with MIME (Make It My Experience).

Natural herbs product brand Gaia Herbs has announced a new partnership with Emarsys.

The latter will provide customer engagement and data analytics tools that, according to a press release, will “act as the lynchpin of the Gaia Herbs’ marketing tech stack, as part of its three-year plan for growth, establishing best practice within the business.

Furniture Village has opened a virtual store.

Using Matterport technology, it has mapped the inside of its Guildford branch, allowing customers to ‘walk’ around the store and look at products. Clicking on a product opens another web page showing further information.

Irgen Retail Management, a developer of shopping centres, retail parks and outlets in Italy, has selected Coniq’s geo-loyalty solution, IQ Connect.

It is looking to increase turnover by 10% this year at Cilento Outlet Village when normal footfall returns after Covid-19.

Skinnydip London says that it has used Nosto technology to increase average online store visit value by 16% and sales conversions by 15%.

Heineken is to implement Blue Yonder’s artificial intelligence and machine learning powered demand planning solution.

Online retailer Lovehoney has wrapped a multi-market e-commerce launch, in partnership with Astound Commerce.

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