With under three weeks to go until NRF 2026 (11 – 13 Jan 2026, NYC), we explore more unmissable innovation from Retail’s Big Show.

Hot on the heels of our round-up featuring highlights from Expo Floor (Level 1), we head on up to Expo Floor (Level 3) to spotlight the solutions which make up our top ten tech picks.

Akeneo

Booth #5463

Product experience (PX) company and Product Information Management (PIM) solution provider, Akeneo, will showcase its intelligent Product Cloud at NRF 2026. Its solution empowers brands to elevated PX with user-friendly and AI-powered product data enrichment, management, syndication and supplier data onboarding.

It will also be highlighting new features and AI applications that help make retailers more discoverable in the age of agentic AI, turning human and AI browsers into buyers.

Working with leading brands, including Karl Lagerfeld, N Brown and Tiffany & Co., Akeneo announced earlier this month it would partner with fashion retailer, River Island, to modernise its product data, driving faster go-to-market, improved discoverability and enhanced retail execution.

Appriss Retail

Booth #5275

Loss solution provider for omnichannel retailers, Appriss Retail, will highlight expanded initiatives to help retailers quickly reclaim margin lost to returns and shrink.

Linking and validating consumer and transaction data across store, digital and customer service channels, Appriss offers retailers unified intelligence. This gives brands a single, trusted view of every shopper and associate, empowering smarter, faster decisions that safeguard revenue.

“Retailers are under enormous pressure to protect margins while still delivering a consistent experience online and in-store,” said Michael Osborne, CEO of Appriss Retail. “AI-informed, personalised solutions can meaningfully reduce operational loss across returns, shrink and incidents, representing one of the highest-impact levers for improving the P&L.”

Diebold Nixdorf (DN)

Booth #3522

Diebold Nixdorf (DN) will present exclusive insights on how AI technology performs in retail self-service environments, with its booth featuring an interactive multi-touch ‘demo table’ which uses real-world data behind AI-powered shrink reduction, age verification and fresh produce recognition at the self-service checkout.

It will also host a full suite of full-store AI platform solutions that help retailers to combat shrink, reduce checkout friction and improve the safety for shoppers and employees, as well as introducing Intelligent Retail, its new vision for the future of store environments, on its booth.

Flooid

Booth #6405

Flooid will demonstrate its composable unified commerce platform, which helps retailers scale, adapt and deliver new experiences, as well as hero-ing its new Empower solution that supports brands in driving front-of-store efficiency and staff productivity.

Flooid‘s booth will also feature strategic partners, including payments provider Adyen, ESLs from Displaydata and commerce technology consultancy PMC, bringing together hardware, software and data to create seamless, customer-first experiences.

Klaviyo

Booth #6605

Customer data and marketing automation, Klaviyo, enables retailers to turn shopper data into personalised marketing across email, SMS and other owned channels, all without relying on third-party platforms.

As AI assistants become a new starting point for discovery, brands need a unified view of their customers and the ability to act on that insight instantly. Klaviyo’s Customer Agent turns real-time consumer insight into personalised experiences by answering questions 24/7 with context, while its Marketing Agent autonomously plans and launches campaigns. 

“This year, the retail industry underwent a major shift towards AI, and in 2026 the focus will be on getting ahead of the agentic commerce wave,” Ben Jackson, MD EMEA at Klaviyo said. “We are helping our customers navigate this transformation with confidence.”

Pricer

Booth #6229

Shelf-edge communications specialist, Pricer, will be unveiling solutions to meet growing consumer demand for clarity, transparency, sustainability and enhanced in-store experiences, demo-ing the latest innovations driving the future of connected shelf technology.

Pricer works with global retailers and brands, including INTERSPORT, East of England Co-op and Company Shop, across its shelf-edge and Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) solutions.

Away from the booth, Pricer will also host an Exhibitor Big Ideas session – Shelf Awareness: How Smart Stores Win Shoppers – on Sun 11 Jan at 09.30am (Stage 5). Featuring Pricer’s Chief Product Officer, Finn Wikander, and East of England Co-op’s Technology Officer, Rob Smith, the session will explore how connected tech ecosystems can make bricks-and-mortar work harder to deliver efficiency and CX.

Quorso

Booth #2312 and inside the Microsoft booth #4503

Quorso helps leading retailers drive smarter, faster store execution by turning data into daily, trackable actions for every manager.

It offers Intelligent Management solutions that leverage AI to create seamless flows of information, allowing teams to take data-driven action to simplify ops and boost performance.

A great example of Quorso’s Intelligent Management approach is its recent work with Currys. Together, they launched Action AI, a smart platform that helps store teams work more efficiently and saves time by making important data easier for managers to find, understand and act upon.

The solution unifies information, including sales, footfall, promotions, surveys and customer satisfaction scores, into a single, action-focused dashboard. Using this data, the AI-powered dashboard then prioritises the most impactful tasks, helping store teams focus on the right task, in the right way, at the right time.

Sitoo

Booth #3303 (inside the Zebra booth)

Sitoo will be showcasing how unified commerce can power better POS flexibility, with use-cases which show off how RFID, Tap to Pay, AI and wearables can integrate into one workflow to enhance CX, boost in-store personalisation and optimise operations.

In what it is calls “shopping flowfulness”, it will highlight what happens when shoppers, store associates and technology come together to create endless checkout possibilities.

Sitoo, which works with brands including Nudie Jeans and Paul Smith, recently extended its partnership with Varner, one of Scandinavia’s largest fashion retailers. Rolling out its POS for Android solution on Zebra Technologies’ handheld, mobile devices, Varner’s associates can now deliver seamless shopping experiences, which power store performance and drive loyalty, anywhere in the store.

Additionally, Sitoo will be bringing back its popular Hummer Limo store tours to NRF 2026. These allow retailers and brands to explore the best examples of unified commerce and immersive bricks-and-mortar retail in NYC’s Soho. For more information and to request a spot, visit: SoHo store tour in the Sitoo Hummer Limo at NRF.

Snowflake

Booth #5563

Snowflake will spotlight how the Data Cloud is empowering brands to unlock the power of data and AI/ML, delivering personalised shopping experiences, monetised data, optimised pricing & promotion strategies and improved supply chain operations.

Snowflake will also be delivering an Exhibitor Big Ideas session – AI for retail in action: Where intelligent insights meet authentic experiences – on Tue 13 Jan 2026, at 10.15am (Stage 1).

The session will explore the role of AI in transforming how retailers build authentic, meaningful customer connections. Snowflake’s Global Head of Retail, Rosemary DeAragon, joins Ngai Yuen Low, MD of AEON360 and Kayla Itsines, Co-Founder of fitness app Sweat, to discuss how data and AI are reshaping customer understanding, engagement and brand growth.

Away from the show floor, Snowflake will also team up with partners, Deloitte, Hightouch & Sigma, to host a pre-NRF Happy Hour on Jan 11 in Printemps, which offers tours of the retail space over networking. For further details, visit: NRF 2026 Microsite – Snowflake.

VusionGroup

Booth #4921

VusionGroup will unveil its vision of the future of retail, powered by AI, automation and real-time shelf intelligence, with solutions that help retailers transform operations, elevate shopper experiences and drive profitability across store networks.

From ESLs to real-time pricing, inventory automation and shopper engagement tools, it will allow retailers to discover how connected store solutions deliver measurable impact.

Earlier this year, Morrisons confirmed it would rollout VusionGroup’s ESLs across all its 497 stores, eliminating traditional paper labels and replacing them with clear and accurate digital pricing and product information. Deploying 10.8million ESLs across its supermarket estate, the digital labels will also help automate repetitive manual tasks, freeing up Morrisons’ colleagues to focus on customer service initiatives.

Other supermarkets have also been deploying its ESLs, including Asda, which is using the solution across its Express convenience stores, while the Co-op is using ESLs to make becoming a member in-store easier for shoppers.