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Lush teams up with Google AI to streamline packaging-free checkouts

Amber Rolt

09 July 2025 • 1 min read

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New AI powered system allows cosmetics retailer to quickly process products without packaging or barcodes

British cosmetics company Lush has announced it has teamed up with Google Cloud's AI services to streamline the processing of its packaging free products. The retailer - which has become famous for...

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