Norwegian Minister of Digitalisation Visits StrongPoint to Experience Cutting-Edge Grocery Technology
StrongPoint, a leading grocery technology provider, was proud to welcome the Norwegian Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Karianne Oldernes Tung, to its offices and Customer Experience Centre in Oslo today.
The Minister personally tested StrongPoint’s next generation AI powered self-checkout, including its automated age verification feature for restricted items. She also explored the company’s world leading order picking solution for grocery e-commerce, the next generation Vensafe with in aisle ticket dispensing, and AI powered digital scales for packaging free product dispensing that allow customers to bring their own containers.
During the visit, Minister Tung emphasised the potential of Norwegian innovation in a rapidly changing retail landscape, and the country’s opportunity to serve as a hub for advanced technology.
“We were honoured by the Minister’s visit and proud to showcase our next generation grocery solutions. Her recognition underlines the important role StrongPoint plays in shaping the future of grocery technology at home and abroad. Norway is the perfect market to develop and test new retail solutions, and we believe there is an opportunity to build a strong retail technology ecosystem here that can export world leading solutions across the globe,” added Jacob Tveraabak, CEO of StrongPoint.
Pictures from the visit
Learn more about StrongPoint’s solutions
Order Picking
StrongPoint Order Picking is the world’s fastest manual picking solution, with an average picking rate of 240 items per hour and peak performance reaching up to 350 items per hour. This cloud-based system is designed to maximise the efficiency and accuracy of in-store staff.
Learn more
Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)
Price tagging is often one of the most resource-intensive tasks in a store as it involves several manual steps, with a high risk of human errors. In addition to pricing, you also have to consider promotions, further complicating the process. Electronic shelf labels optimize both store operations and price management. It can also increase the speed of order picking for online orders thanks to pick-by-light.
Learn more
Vensafe Select & Collect
Vensafe enables a secure in-store collection point for age-restricted and high-theft products purchased through both self-checkout and manned checkouts. This enables retailers to boost in-store efficiencies, increase the safety of their store staff, eliminate sales to minors, and control in-store thefts.
Learn more
Self-Checkout
There is a clear trend toward more checkout options and flexibility in retail today. Retailers look for combinations of regular tills, self-scanning systems and self-checkout to better fit their individual store layouts and concepts. At the same time, there is a growing demand for self-service options among shoppers. With StrongPoint’s self-checkout solution you get a fast, highly user-friendly solution with AI item recognition. That means less queues, faster checkout and happier customers.
Learn more