The app is designed for online shoe retailers to offer to their customers, to provide accurate fitting of different types of shoes and feet.

Instead of destroying or disposing of items, the municipal team checks and, if necessary, repairs them, before putting them up for resale.

Researchers explored the role that technologies like AI, VR and 3D printing could play in addressing industry problems like oversupply.

The first completely automated cashier-less store opened in the Middle East, as French retail giant Carrefour rolled out its future vision.