Retail Technology
Supermarkets Under Pressure: When Retail Technology Becomes a Public Scandal
The global supermarket industry is facing one of its most delicate moments in decades. While retailers race to modernise stores through artificial intelligence, biometric systems and automated pricing tools, public trust is increasingly being...
Electronic Shelf Label: The Quiet Technology Redefining Supermarket Power in 2026
Electronic shelf labels are no longer a pilot project or a retail curiosity. In 2026, they have become a strategic weapon in supermarket operations. Retailers adopting this technology are not doing so for aesthetics...
Retail leaders from Currys, Frasers Group, the BRC, Harrods, Aroma Zone and Holland & Barrett to join all-star speaker line up at RTS 2026
15 January 2026 — London, UK — Retail leaders, c-suite powerhouses and challenger brands are set to join the all-star speaker line up at Retail Technology Show (RTS), the leading event connecting retail’s changemakers with tech...
Supermarkets at a Turning Point: The Retail Reinvention That Everyone’s Talking About
Across Europe and beyond, supermarkets aren’t just places to buy groceries anymore — they’ve become battlegrounds for convenience, technology, and consumer loyalty. In an era where habits shift weekly and competition is relentless, the...
Grocers need a scalpel, not an axe, for data overload
Retailers aren’t short on data. They’re short on time, attention, and engaged store teams, the real engines of productivity. Paul Boyle CEO of Retail Insight talks about how they can move from data overload...
New retail efficiency for 2026: transforming operations with AI automations
Ed Betts, COO at Retail Express, explains the ways retailers can begin to streamline operations and empower decision making with safe, powerful, automated AI tools AI-ready infrastructure turns data into value. Once the data...
Walmart: Scale, Technology, and the American Model
Walmart operates in a different universe, yet faces strikingly similar challenges. In the United States, Walmart’s strength lies in its unmatched scale and logistics capability. No other retailer can move products as efficiently across...
Retail Tech Report: The End of Checkout – How Invisible Payment Technology Will Redefine In-Store Shopping
For more than two decades, the retail industry has experimented with self-checkout in an attempt to speed up the payment process and reduce operational costs. First introduced in the late 1990s, self-checkout machines were...
Stockouts cost loyalty as UK shoppers walk away from empty shelves
New Pricer research reveals on-shelf execution is now the UK’s biggest loyalty driver UK supermarkets are losing loyalty and sales at the shelf edge, with new research from Pricer, a leading global retail technology...
Electronic Shelf Labels: The Retail Revolution You Didn’t See Coming
By Riad Beladi, James Harley (ISN), with Lucas Putchek and commentary from Michael Grant, Retail Tech Buyer Introduction: A Year Following the ESL Revolution ISN Magazine spent the past year following the rise of...