Arrefour Belgium collaborates on the BuyBye autonomous micro store with retail technology startup Reckon AI.This week saw the opening of Carrefour Belgium's 18 square meter little store. Carrefour BuyBye is situated at the company's headquarters in Zaventem, Belgium, which is close to Brussels. Customers can purchase fruit, cold drinks, snacks, lunch, and snacks from a succession of refrigerator vending machines that make up the self-contained store.
Before using the Carrefour Buybye app to unlock the machines, take out products, and check out, customers must download it, create an account, and add a payment method.
It is the result of a collaboration with startup Reckon AI, which specialises in micro-stores equipped with artificial intelligence.Plans are afoot to roll-out the concept to Carrefour Belgium’s existing physical stores.
Aria receives €15 million as it attempts to provide digital payments to all types of enterprises.Aria, a French FinTech firm, has revealed plans to raise €15 million to develop its infrastructure for deferred payments throughout B2B marketplaces and the platform economy.
In addition to Adevinta Ventures, Ankaa Ventures, Otium Capital, and angel investors Laurent Ritter (Purple), Mark Ransford, and Guillaume Princen (a former Stripe executive), this was spearheaded by 13books Capital. Any merchant, B2B marketplace, or sector SaaS business that offers goods and services both online and offline may use Aria to give their vendors a variety of terms and payment options and get rapid payment all on one platform.
Through its API, it may interface with ERP systems, transactional SaaS platforms, and B2B marketplaces to distribute early payment of supplier bills and provide end users with choices for deferred payment.
Winners of the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards will be revealed at a glamorous ceremony in central London. We recently revealed the winning entries for the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards, which are presented by Goodays, Vista Technology Support, PMC, FreedomPay, Worldpay from FIS, CADS, and 3D Cloud by Marxent.
Our winners were unveiled during an event held at the Barbican Centre in central London. It featured an awards ceremony in the Garden Room, a three-course dinner with a Christmas theme, and a drinks following in the gorgeous Conservatory.
Many of the people that entered the 2023 awards were present at our event last night, so thank you to all of you. This year, we had an unprecedented amount of submissions, and many of them were outstanding illustrations of how the retail industry has remained resilient and dynamic in the face of extreme adversity.
"We'd like to congratulate our 2023 winners and highly regarded submissions.""What a year, these awards are really going from strength to strength," said one of the judges. There were a lot of categories there that were really hard to choose. Very deserving entrants and winners. You may see more details about each of our 2023 entries here.
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