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Aldi partners Too Good To Go


By Alexandra Leonards

Aldi is addressing its food waste problem by teaming up with Too Good To Go. The supermarket retailer said that is trialling the app across seven stores in the Northeast of England.


Vyne & Wix partner for Open Banking solution

Vyne has announced a partnership with Wix.com to provide merchants on its platform with an Open Banking solution. The partnership between the pay with bank account-to-account (A2A) provider and the software as a service (SaaS) platform will give Wix’s UK-based merchants access to Vyne’s Open Banking payments infrastructure and enable them to offer customers the ability to pay directly from their preferred mobile banking app.

Frasers Group partners Tanium for cyber resilience strategy

Frasers Group has chosen endpoint management provider Tanium to improve its cyber resilience and IT integration programmes as the company completes a series of mergers and acquisitions.The retail group, which is led by retail tycoon Mike Ashley, owns several leading High Street Brands including Sports Direct, House of Fraser, Jack Wills, Game, Flannels and Sofa.com and is currently leading a number of buyouts of fast fashion brands including I Saw It First and Missguided.

Rapha Racing partners 7bridges for supply chain technology

Cycling apparel brand Rapha Racing is partnering with technology provider 7bridges to optimise supply chains.Rapha Racing will use 7bridges’ AI-powered logistics technology to create more resilience supply chains in a bid to improve performance and reduce costs.

Evri appoints new chief data officer

Parcel delivery business Evri, formerly Hermes, has appointed Harvinder Atwal as its new chief data officer.
Brits return to in-store shopping to ‘cope with cost-of-living’

UK consumers are returning to stores, perhaps in an effort to gain more control of spending and ‘try before they buy’, according to Barclaycard.

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Asda launches app-based loyalty programme

Asda has announced the roll out of a new loyalty programme across 633 UK stores, as well as online through asda.com for delivery and its click & collect service.

Shopify introduces creator storefront feature

Shopify has introduced Shopify Collabs to help creators connect with merchants.
The new feature has been launched because most creators - small businesses and sole traders offering products, services and content and hoping to build their brands - struggle to make money and become independent, with only 4 per cent of creators making content full time, according to Shopify.

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