Digital Transformation

The retailer next plans to incorporate virtual trials for additional hair categories, such as wigs, and is exploring how the virtual try-ons could be connected to in-store styling services.  

After a 50-store trial, the Canadian grocer has ordered 5 million digital tags.

The parent company of Canadian grocer Sobeys also plans to continue investing in data, e-commerce and owned brands.

The U.K. retailer plans a 12-week trial of the tech at a Manchester convenience store.

These self-service retail solutions were designed to address key challenges CPG brands and retailers encounter, including labor shortages, theft and shrinkage.

Local and independent supermarkets are implementing smart carts, while Aldi and other grocers adopt Instacart’s electronic shelf label functionality.

The retailer is leveraging AI and GenAI tools and features that create more customized homepages, vet influencers, enhance search results, generate product reviews and more.

Research from 84.51° found that shoppers increasingly expect innovations like smart carts and AI integrations to streamline the shopping experience.

Simbe's retailer partners can now give their vendors daily intel on SKU-level shelf availability and out of stocks, promotional execution and product performance trends.

The funds will help the visual analytics company expand its Visual AI platform, leverage synthetic human preferences to predict audience reactions and enter new markets.