REWE opens Germany's largest hybrid-autonomous store
The new facility offers customers the option to pay for their purchases autonomously or via a traditional process.
REWE Group has opened Germany’s largest hybrid-autonomous supermarket, which allows customers to shop and pay for their purchases in a traditional way or autonomously without a checkout process.
The retailer partnered with Trigo, an Israel-based computer vision company building the infrastructure for autonomous checkout and retail analytics, to complete the project. Through ceiling-mounted intelligent cameras and shelf sensors, the store allows customers to walk in, select their items, and leave without having to pay at checkout.
This new hybrid supermarket is the largest in Germany, around 600 square meters, almost twice as big as previous locations, and features the most extensive range of items, with around 13,000 stock keeping units.
“The shopping behavior of our customers is constantly changing. The opening of the largest hybrid store in Cologne is another important milestone for us on the way to the shopping experience of tomorrow,” said Hanno Rieger, Chairman of the Management Board of REWE Region West.
REWE Markt GmbH is one of the leading companies in the German food retail sector. This is REWE’s fourth Trigo-powered Pick&Go grocery store, with others already operating in Cologne, Berlin, and Munich. Last December, Trigo and REWE opened Germany’s first fully automated supermarket.
