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The buying alliance between Carrefour and Tesco is subject to strict conditions by the French competition authority: fruit and vegetables are excluded from the cooperation, as are products of which Carrefour has more than 15% market share.

Walmart has ended its collaboration with Bossa Nova Robotics. This means, among other things, that the supermarket chain is abandoning its plans to use robots on a large scale to scan shelves and track inventory.

Decathlon turns its Belgian webshop into a platform on which other brands and partners can sell their sporting products – from Adidas to local start-ups. The project will be rolled out to other countries as well.

The Yoox Net-a-Porter Group and Armani have announced they will extend their collaboration: in better connecting online and offline, they want to improve the shopping experience for their customers.

The collaboration between Dutch chains Jumbo and Hema, which they had already announced in November last year, started this morning with a festive ceremony in the Jumbo Food Market in Breda. Other stores in the Netherlands and Belgium will follow soon.

The deal with Unilever at the end of 2018 has been lucrative for The Vegetarian Butcher. The founder, Jaap Korteweg, who is now a consultant, expects the company to annually double its turnover in the coming years.  

Soon after revealing they would start working together closely, Dutch chains Jumbo and Hema have reached an agreement on an intensified commercial cooperation in the Benelux. Over the next three years, Jumbo will take over the leases of fifteen Hema branches in major Dutch cities, and those of two Belgian Hema stores. In addition, all Jumbo supermarkets will start to sell Hema products.