Tag "app"
The Munch application against food waste is becoming more and more popular
Date: 2023-06-12 11:46:15
A large quantity of valuable food goes to waste or ends up in landfills worldwide. Approximately 87.6 million tons of food is wasted annually in the EU alone. This is...
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Waitrose wins award for animal welfare app
Date: 2022-06-16 08:10:32
Waitrose has won the Best Retailers Innovation Awards for its role in developing a “groundbreaking” animal welfare app in collaboration with Scotland’s Rural College. The project that has allowed the...
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Gorillas Launches Private-Label Products In Four European Markets
Date: 2022-06-14 08:10:36
German grocery delivery app Gorillas has announced the launch of private-label products in Germany, France, the UK, and the Netherlands. The company will offer around 50 products in 11 popular...
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Uber Donates App To World Food Programme For Ukraine
Date: 2022-06-10 08:50:06
Uber said on Wednesday it had donated a customised version of its ‘Uber Direct’ software app to the UN’s World Food Programme to help distribute food in Ukraine. The WFP...
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Majority Of Dutch Consumers Use Supermarket Apps, Research Finds
Date: 2022-02-22 08:30:52
Around 83% of Dutch shoppers use a supermarket app, with offers and digital loyalty cards being the most sought-after features, a survey from PanelWizard and Albert Heijn’s data has revealed....
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Finland’s K-Group To Upgrade Mobile App
Date: 2022-02-09 08:30:05
Finland’s K-Group has announced that it is improving the e-commerce abilities of its mobile app following strong growth in the online grocery retail segment. Approximately one in five of K-Group’s...
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An app provides personal climate change alerts
Date: 2022-01-25 08:30:53
Although extreme weather events are frequently in the news, it can be very difficult for this to cut through. In fact, there is some evidence that news of extreme weather...
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Pharmacy rolls out chain-wide app feature for spoken prescriptions
Date: 2022-01-13 08:10:54
US-based CVS Pharmacy recently announced the release of its Spoken Rx app feature, which will read prescription information out loud for customers who are blind or visually impaired. CVS began...
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Too Good To Go Saves 10 Million Meals In Germany
Date: 2021-11-03 08:40:12
Food waste prevention app Too Good To Go has reached the milestone of saving ten million, with Edeka Treugut on Heidelberger Strasse in Berlin the site for the landmark meal,...
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Albert Heijn Launches FoodFirst Lifestyle Coach App
Date: 2021-11-03 08:30:42
Albert Heijn has launched a new app – FoodFirst Lifestyle Coach – to help customers eat better, exercise more, relax well and sleep better. The free app offers advice, inspiration,...
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Metro Express Checkout – it’s ONLY up to you how much time you spend with shopping. VIDEO
Date: 2020-12-02 08:10:28
Retailer METRO has launched its Express Checkout on 1, December. Download the Express Checkout app, read the QR-code on the trolley and start shopping. Read each item’s bar code with...
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Albert Heijn Launches New Delivery Service For Small Households
Date: 2020-09-28 08:30:43
Dutch retailer Albert Heijn has announced the launch of AH Compact – a new, free delivery service for small households. The service can be accessed by downloading the new AH...
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Lidl partners with Irish startup, Buymie
Date: 2020-08-31 08:50:51
Lidl has partnered with Irish startup, Buymie, to deliver goods to shoppers in Cork, Ireland. The Buymie app, which connects customers with independent shoppers who then pick up and deliver...
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With Lookout, Google Helps Visually-Impaired With Their Groceries
Date: 2020-08-16 08:50:25
Google has unveiled a new update to its Lookout app, which can assist blind or visually-impaired consumers with handling groceries. The Food Label module, a new feature of Google Lookout,...
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Lidl Plus launched in the UK and Germany
Date: 2020-08-16 08:30:51
The loyalty app Lidl Plus is now available in the UK and Germany. The app is Lidl’s digital loyalty and rewards programme and offers the following features: Coupons to be...
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Penny Germany rolls out Scan and Go to 100 stores
Date: 2020-07-10 08:10:49
Penny, Rewe’s discount banner, has rolled out its Scan and Go app at 100 stores on 29 June. This is part of the retailer’s recent strategy to enhance its model...
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Chaos, privacy fears as Bangkok malls reopened
Date: 2020-05-20 08:10:11
In Bangkok, consumers rushed to return to shopping as usual from Sunday following two months of restricted movement, with most venues requiring the use of hand disinfectant and fask masks...
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Covid-19: Lidl launches chatbox to inform customers of best times to shop
Date: 2020-05-13 08:30:51
Lidl has launched a WhatsApp chatbox to enable customers to know when stores are at their quietest, thereby helping reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection. Customers can simply send a...
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Mobile monitoring apps are coming soon
Date: 2020-04-21 11:06:14
Several European countries are working to develop an application to monitor the spread of the coronavirus epidemic – hvg.hu wrote. First, China began monitoring citizens – and the spread of...
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Lidl Belgium Introduces Digital Loyalty Card
Date: 2020-02-11 08:50:02
Lidl Belgium has announced that it has rolled out its first customer loyalty card through the Lidl Plus app. The loyalty programme will allow shoppers to receive their cash register...
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Spar Italia Uses Apps, Games To Enhance Shopping Experience
Date: 2020-02-06 08:30:07
A number of Spar partners across Italy have rolled out mobile apps and games to enhance the shopping experience for customers. In the Northeast and Emilia-Romagna regions, Aspiag Service is...
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Spar Italy Rolls Out New App For Better Retail Management
Date: 2020-01-07 08:50:29
Spar Italy has introduced a new app in association with technology partner Aspiag Service for better retail management. The retailer has rolled out the .onRetail app in over 560 Despar,...
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Tesco tests checkout-free shopping
Date: 2019-10-20 12:56:07
Tesco has invested in Trigo Vision a checkout-free start-up company, to test cashierless technology at its Tesco Express store. Trigo Vision’s technology will make it possible for Tesco app users to...
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Albert Heijn Adds New Payment Service For Home Deliveries
Date: 2019-09-20 08:50:37
Dutch retailer Albert Heijn has announced that it has added a new smartphone-based payment service for home deliveries. The service, which the retailer claims is a first of its kind...
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7-Eleven introduces mobile checkout
Date: 2019-09-16 13:31:27
After testing mobile self-checkout with employees at its own store, 7-Eleven launched the service in several Dallas locations in 2018 to get customer feedback for further fine-tuning. Customers at 7-Eleven in New...
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App-based payment in 30 Co-op UK stores
Date: 2019-08-20 20:00:23
British convenience retailer Co-op is to extend the trial of its app-based pay-in-aisle technology: 30 stores are planned to be enabled for shoppers to scan and pay with their mobile phones by...
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Gruppo VéGé Pledges To Tackle Food Waste With New App
Date: 2019-07-08 08:30:39
Italy’s Gruppo VéGé has partnered with Last Minute Sotto Casa (LMSC) to launch a smartphone app to tackle food waste. LMSC is a portal that brings together, in real time,...
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The morning coffee can be ordered online from Peet’s
Date: 2019-05-15 16:22:02
Peet’s Coffee customers can shorten the wait for their morning cup of coffee. The chain is expanding its order in advance feature via the Peet’s Coffee app on iPhone and...
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Nike prepping footwear sizing feature for app, retail stores
Date: 2019-05-14 08:10:01
Nike wants to make sure its customers buy footwear that fits and is prepping a Nike Fit functionality in its app and within physical store locations to make that happen....
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Lidl tests loyalty app in Germany
Date: 2019-05-06 11:30:22
Discounter Lidl will be launching an app-based loyalty card in Germany, after a successful trial in four other countries. The Lidl Plus scheme will be rolled out to customers in...
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