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AUG 28, 2026

Bol checkout identity now available on Belgian partner sites

Partner webshops in Belgium can let shoppers pay with an existing Bol account, carrying over stored address and payment details.

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InHouse Market adds operator tools to SHOPPBUD as licensed autonomous stores scale

The Brazilian unmanned-store licensor is tying fees to performance and adding AI-plus-identity loss tools as its SHOPPBUD network grows.

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Lidl Belgium brings Scan & Go into Lidl Plus

The rollout starts in Melle and Destelbergen before expanding across Belgium. Shoppers scan with their phones, track spending and discounts as they go, and finish through a self-service payment flow while staffed checkouts remain available.

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Hornbach extends Dutch in-store navigation to all 18 stores

A year of testing in Nijmegen precedes a nationwide app map that can send shoppers to a specific shelf level.

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Edeka keeps SSI Schäfer WAMAS after K.Motion warehouse pilots

The grocery group is retaining WAMAS at many non-fully-automated full-range DCs rather than expanding Infios’s K.Motion after two trials.

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Lotte Department Store puts Brand AI on tenant mix

An in-house tool maps more than 4,000 brands for scouting, adjacency and entry-exit work, with a chatbot planned later this year.

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Seven-Eleven Japan shifts flea-market drop-offs to Yamato self-ship terminals

Dedicated scan-and-drop hardware is meant to take parcel intake off the register, with a sequential rollout aimed at about 3,000 stores by next spring.

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REWE Digital puts Camunda under orders, invoices and logistics

The German grocer’s digital unit is widening process orchestration across supplier and logistics flows, treating shared state and audit trails as a prerequisite for later AI inside those workflows.

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Edeka Nordbayern trials hybrid Diska store with Anystore

A Thuringia supermarket keeps daytime staffing, then runs card-gated self-service after hours—testing hybrid grocery as a shared store format.

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GK Software embeds Agentic AI in CLOUD4RETAIL store systems

The vendor’s GK Agentic framework pairs documentation-grounded staff assistants with workflow agents, stressing model choice and MCP-ready tools rather than a standalone chatbot.

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Hefei street hosts four robot kiosks at once

Four unmanned shops opened together on Lei Street, shifting a robotics demo toward fleet-style restocking, exceptions and shared support.

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AUG 28, 2026

On-Out Agent F targets fashion allocation and inventory moves

The Korean firm’s Agent F is framed as an execution layer over ERP, sales and logistics data, automating merchandising work from initial store allocation to transfers and markdown timing.

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