Technology

Unified shopping experience for Coop

Coop Group – largest swiss grocery retailer – developed from a small consumer cooperative to an international retail business over the past 150 years.

Various sales formats as well as wholesale and manufacturing companies have been established. Around 90,000 employees are committed to the success of Coop.

A hybrid mobile app for the best shopping experience in Switzerland.

Technology

The challenge

Consolidating multiple mobile apps into one

The new app should increase Coop Group online sales by a substantial share. It enhances the shopping experience thanks to a seamless transaction process from inspiration to checkout.

Upon starting the project, the main challenges and concerns were:

  • First hybrid-based app for Coop
  • Consolidating wide brand and product landscape into one solution
  • Complex architecture with many systems and APIs to integrate

VASS collaborated with Coop all the way from technical conception, engineering to go-live. During this joint effort, we were able to contribute with our profound app experience.

Innovative, Unified, Scalable Mobile Shopping

 

 

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How we did it

State of the art mobile shopping experience

The project started with a consulting phase, where VASS helped define the technical foundation of the all-new Coop app. Our expertise revealed important activities and challenges in the early stage of the project.

The desired build and delivery pipeline for various staging environments was elaborated and established next. VASS also helped Coop set up internal app distribution via Microsoft AppCenter.

The Coop app sets new standards within its landscape as well as in hybrid app engineering:

  • The most recent version of Ionic framework, serving Android and iOS from one codebase
  • Supporting multiple staging environments
  • APIs and SDKs integrated as Hybris, Firebase and barcode scanner

Coop launched the new app in June 2020. Coop will be further enhancing the app and incrementally adding features.

The result

Company

 
  • Early consulting to establish a strong technical foundation for the Coop app.
  • Defined and implemented build and delivery pipelines for various staging environments.
  • Launched a cutting-edge hybrid app that sets new standards in the retail sector.
  • Ongoing enhancements with plans for incremental feature additions.

Technical

  • Facilitated internal app distribution via Microsoft AppCenter.
  • Seamless user experience with a unified app for Android and iOS.

Technologies

Technologies

Ionic framework

HTML 5

CSS

Typescript

Capacitor

Microsoft AppCenter

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