RTIH presents the retail technology week in numbers – Retail Technology Innovation Hub

150John The John Lewis Partnership is recruiting for more than 150 roles as part of what it labels “a major investment in digital”.

It is looking to bring in engineers across a range of technologies, including software, cloud platform, native app, data engineers and delivery leads.

20… Tesco has teamed up with Uber Eats to help expand its Whoosh rapid grocery delivery service,

The supermarket giant launched Whoosh, which aims to deliver food and drinks in under 60 minutes, in May 2021 and it now covers 200 Express outlets across the UK.

The deal with Uber launches from 20 stores, including Edinburgh, Bradford, Portsmouth, Norwich, St Albans and Letchworth.

Tesco says that the partnership will help towards the target of offering the service from 600 locations by the end of 2022.

2C Ocado’s within an hour grocery delivery service, Zoom by Ocado, has launched a second micro site, in Canning Town, East London.

In a LinkedIn post, Kieren Johnson, Head of IT at Ocado Retail, said that the facility was “built using the OSP platform (70 odd bots doing their stuff) and stocking 10k + items for delivery within one hour. All electric delivery fleet. “

The first site was launched in 2019 in Acton, West London.

1.7 millionResh Freshflow, a German startup whose AI powered platform helps grocery retailers tackle stockouts and food waste, has raised € 1.7 million in a seed funding round led by Capnamic and World Fund.