The two day conference was devoted to “Thriving in a Digital World”, and the theme was clearly popular as retailers of all stripes come to terms with the rapid expansion of home shopping and the need to reinvigorate stores to blend online and offline spaces.
When we signed up to be part of the Discovery Zone at Retail Week Live, we had
no idea that we would have to wait almost two years before we would be able
Computer vision technologies can deliver a huge amount of value for retailers, but it can be complex technology to implement. At every step of the way, Iceland and SAI have partnered to solve technical and practical problems.
Although nobody outside of the company has a precise idea of the costs and difficulties involved in fitting out a store, what we can say for certain is that even with Amazon’s inexhaustible budgets, deploying thirty stores has taken over three years.
