Emporia creates virtual holiday store for Lacoste, with an NFT Twist
Emporia has announced the launch of Lacoste’s first ever virtual store ahead of the holiday season.
Upon entering the experience, customers are taken through a crocodile’s mouth, where they find themselves in a showroom featuring five seasonal products, all shoppable viewed in 360°.
As users continue their journey into the second room, Emporia has developed a gamification feature that enables them to interact with more products in the Christmas range.
A third and final token gated room is nestled at the end of the store, exclusive to VIP customers in UNDW3 (Lacoste’s Web3 community) that are in possession of a Lacoste NFT.
Throughout December, ‘loot’ boxes will be dropped within this room for UNDW3 customers to collect, and five users will be selected at random daily, to win a prize.
Created in partnership, using Ariane, token gated technology to bring this room to life, customers will be encouraged to keep coming back for new surprises.
Freedom Pay and Prompt partner on secure personalized payment requests
Commerce technology firm Freedom Pay has partnered with prompt, a platform that enables businesses to request, collect, and track remote payments.
It says that the move will enhance its Next Level Commerce solution by providing greater flexibility and choice for enterprise customers who wish to offer a fully branded and rich payment experience.
The tie-up will help deliver instant, branded, personalized payment requests via email, text, chat, and messaging apps while integrating with Freedom Pay's solutions across payments, security, identity, and data analytics.
2022 RT IH Innovation Awards: shortlists announced, winners revealed this month
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been announcing the shortlists for the 2022 RT IH Innovation Awards.
And now we’re pleased to bring them all together in one place.
Check them out here.
Colruyt Group collected service tests out clean unmanned vehicle in Belgium
Collected, Colruyt Group’s online shopping service, is trailing an autonomous vehicle built by clean that combines remote teleoperation with autopilot functionality.
The clean 1 will cover a four kilometers route, from distribution center to collect pick-up point it is the longest route ever covered in Belgium by an unmanned vehicle.
RT IH invites submissions for 2022 Retail Technology Innovations Report
RT IH recently announced the launch of its first ever Retail Technology Innovations Report, This will highlight the top retail tech plays of 2022 as decided by our Editor, Scott Thompson, and an independent advisory panel.
Think you should be included in our top 50 retail technology innovations of 2022?
If so, make sure you submit your nomination (free of charge) before Friday, 9th December.
We’re looking for noteworthy technology deployments, launches, and pilots from across the omnichannel retail landscape, be they payments, supply chain, online, mobile, physical store etc., related.
Scott Thompson will then draw up a long list which will go to our independent judging panel.
Robots up north: Starship Technologies and Co-op bring autonomous food delivery to Leeds.
Starship Technologies has partnered with Leeds City Council and the Co-op to bring autonomous grocery delivery to the streets of Leeds.
The service will be available to 20,000 residents initially within the Adel and Tin shill area of Leeds.
Orders are made through the Starship app, which is available for download on iOS and Android, with groceries picked in local Co-op stores on Spent Lane, Tin shill and Oxley Road, Adel, for rapid delivery.
The expansion in the north of England for the first time follows the introduction of autonomous deliveries in Milton Keynes, Bedford, Northampton, Tambourine and most recently Cambridge.
Warner deployment Of Gander food waste technology in new store
UK independent retailer, Guy Warner, has got onboard with food waste app, Gander, by installing its technology in his latest flagship store in Upton-Upon-Severn.
The co-branded concept store is branded as Warner’s Supermarkets – Together with Morrison's.
The Gander app identifies reduced food items in local stores in real-time.
Giant Tiger rips out online retail technology stack, replaces with Shopify Plus
Canadian discount store chain, Giant Tiger, has launched a new website and an end to end tech stack replacement.
In a LinkedIn post, Simon Rodriguez, SVP & Chief Digital Officer at Giant Tiger, said: “Excited to be working with Shopify on the Shopify Plus platform building out an experience to help Canadians save with a smile.”
He added: “Thanks to all the teams at Giant Tiger, our lead development partners at Diff and our technology partners at Algeria, Content, Segment, Ship hero, Alkenes, Situation, 6 River Systems, Alum works, Noise, Kyoto, Flavio, Gorgias, Global Apps - it takes a powerful team, dedicated to a cause to make it happen.”
In a Twitter post, Aaron Rubin, Founder and CEO at Ship Hero, described the project as “the biggest Shopify ecosystem news you haven’t heard”.
Indian online retailer Pepper fry taps Far Eye last mile delivery solutions
Pepper fry, an e-commerce home goods company, headquartered in Mumbai, India, is working with Far Eye to simplify last mile delivery, particularly for oversized deliveries requiring installation.
Larders Travel Retail goes live with Receipt Hero digital receipt solution
Receipt Hero and larders Travel Retail are teaming up to deploy a digital receipt solution to the latter’s UK stores.
Larders Travel Retail currently operates 21 shops across eight airports and eight ferries.
Larders Travel Retail UK & Ireland brands include Discover, Delia Duty Free, Tommy Hilfiger and the LEGO Store.
Customers can receive their digital receipts in real-time from the point of purchase in the Receipt Hero app, available for both iOS and Android users.
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