Merchandising & Store OpsTuesday, October 13, 2026
Intermarché in France reduced checkout losses from approximately 3% to below 1% at its Toulon store by deploying SeeChange computer-vision AI to detect unscanned items.
Trigo Retail launched a computer-vision loss-prevention solution on June 10, 2025, that reuses existing CCTV and integrates with POS to compare picked-up items against scanned items in real time.
Circana data indicates deli-prepared foods reached $1.9 billion in September with 2.7% dollar growth as grocers expand technology-driven salad and sandwich offerings.
A California robotics startup is testing a fully autonomous system that converts sealed wholesale medication bottles into verified vials for a major national pharmacy chain.
CVS Health deployed Tompkins Robotics tSort systems to increase central-fill throughput by 160%, while Medline achieved 96% next-day delivery using similar robotic automation.
Chef Robotics has received NSF certification for its AI-powered meal-assembly robots, which have processed over 80 million servings in the US, Canada, and UK.
