Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

The Seattle store, which closed June 16, was Amazon’s second in the city when it opened in August 2018. The retailer has since continued to introduce tech into Whole Foods stores , including Amazon One palm recognition and the Amazon Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that lets shoppers skip the checkout line.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New tech integrationswill include iPads and other handheld point-of-sale devices for seamless checkout experiences, as well as the integration of QR codes throughout the store to offer customers access to additional product information. The return of BuyBuy Baby is only the latest revival in the baby retail sector this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Preparing Internal Operations for Smart Stores The importance of operational preparedness is especially true for grocers implementing emerging technologies such as autonomous checkout, also referred to as seamless checkout. These operations may struggle to adapt to the unique needs of automated checkout systems and smart stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

“Our clients desire a seamless experience in every step of the shopping journey, and our partnership with FreedomPay allows us to maximize efficiencies and capabilities at checkout.”. In 2019, the retailer introduced its first AI-powered digital mirror at the Sephora flagship location in Madrid.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 4, 2024

The group first introduced its Quieter Hour back in 2018 , which involves turning down the lights in stores and turning both the tannoy and any music off on Saturdays from 9am – 10am in a bid to make stores more comfortable for shoppers with autism.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Checkout is moving to frictionless. About half of all checkout lanes are self-checkout and this percentage is growing weekly. Checkout lines will be a thing of the past, as they simply walk out with the items they need. In fact, Walmart has designed its newest stores to be shopped while being guided by the app.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2021

When Amazon Go launched in 2018, critics claimed that it would take more than a decade for autonomous retail to catch on. Which impulse items are people buying at checkout? Fast-forward a couple of years and one global pandemic later, it’s clear that autonomous retail isn’t going anywhere.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2023

Established in 2018, Morsl curates some 1000 fresh food, snacks, and drinks – including ready-to-eat meals, salads, and sandwiches – offered via a fully automated, self-checkout vending machine designed to look like a cafe.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

PayPal Giving Fund says it has now raised $200 million to support Australian charities since launching the initiative in 2018. The fund allows partner programs to support thousands of Australian charities through digital fundraisers, microdonations at checkout, employee giving programs, and other initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The digital transformation initiative, aptly called “Project Herringbone” internally, was initiated by Ian Rosen, VP of Digital and Strategy and son of CEO Larry Rosen, who took the helm in 2018. Originally a multi-year plan, the project turned into a six-month sprint supported by Bold Commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Convenience orders on Instacart are up more than 150% since May 2021, and nearly 20% of shoppers choose Priority Delivery at checkout. Kroger launched its own internal delivery service with 55,000 items in 2018, and expanded its collaboration with Instacart to include alcohol in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2021

In 2018, the brand partnered with Salesfloor to deploy a new mobile platform for associates — known as StyleConnect — combining clienteling and mobile checkout with a customer-facing interface embedded on the retailer’s ecommerce site.

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VMS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Self-checkout lanes will still be available for shoppers to pay with cash, gift cards and other payment types. Amazon opened its first cashierless store, an Amazon Go in Seattle, in 2018. Amazon (Seattle) will open two new Whole Foods stores featuring its cashierless technology for the first time, reports Bloomberg.

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Independent Retailer

JULY 29, 2022

The versatile solution increases inventory traceability to the item-level, and as a result, facilitates smart mirrors in fitting rooms, checkout-less shopping, social media integration, and indoor mapping through smartphones. The adoption of RFID technology also allows retailers to reduce the friction at checkout points.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When Hannon Comazzetto started Australian re-commerce platform AirRobe in 2018, resale was still quite niche locally – pursued by a small but passionate group. Back then, Hannon found that brands were interested and willing to learn more about re-commerce, but they weren’t all that convinced it would work for them.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The new rules mean that products considered less healthy, such as confectionery, cannot be featured in key store locations, such as entrances, checkouts, aisle ends and their online equivalents. Tesco plans dedicated signage in stores to alert customers to products and deals on offer for football celebrations. Similarly, shoppers spent 1.2

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to Business Insider Intelligence , the number of global stores with autonomous capabilities rose from only 350 in 2018 to a forecasted 10,000 stores in 2024, with a sales transaction volume of under $70 million to over $20 billion. The sky is the limit for autonomous stores.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2023

Since a Supreme Court ruling in 2018, any business trading online with US customers must pay state-based sales taxes, no matter if they have a physical presence in the US or not. The tax engine was created for the sole purpose of being able to calculate and charge tax at the checkout of your ERP, e-commerce or marketplace platform.

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V Count

JULY 2, 2021

Queue management, on the other hand, shows how long every customer spends at the checkout counter. If, for example, data from the queue management solution show that there were long waiting lines during this period, it becomes apparent that customers abandoned their carts because the checkout queue was too long. Conclusion.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2023

Fast expansion Amazon’s palm-scanning or cashier-less checkout technology is in more than 200 establishments in and outside the company, according to Dilip Kumar, Vice President, AWS Applications, as quoted by Reuters. Kumar mentioned that the company is widening the deployment of its contactless technology with existing customers.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Lotus’s existing malls are configured in a manner that allows space to be leased within the hypermarket box itself (for example, along a straight line beyond the checkouts at the front of the store) and around the racetrack that comprises the main mall.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2021

According to PPRO’s own research , 42% of US consumers will abandon their baskets if their preferred payment method is not available at checkout. To be able to scale up and succeed in the new normal, merchants must work with payment service providers to activate as many payment methods as possible at the checkout page.

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Dezeen

APRIL 30, 2023

Integrated display cabinets provide plenty of storage Bianco Carrara marble was used on top of the checkout counter to convey a sense of timeless luxury, while moss-coloured velvet changing room curtains reference the theatre concept and bring softness and tactility to the space. The photography is by Alex Lesage.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In the centre of the space is a U-shaped checkout counter, and in the rear is a row of vintage refrigerators. Dispensaries have been popping up in Toronto ever since Canada legalised marijuana for recreational use in 2018. The Superette store has a central U-shaped counter.

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Indigo 9 Digital

AUGUST 2, 2022

In the United States Amazon has made the most significant advances in creating tech enabled retail stores with its Just Walk Out technology that allows customers to skip the checkout. The first Amazon Go store opened to the public in 2018 to much fanfare. It is the world’s largest online payment platform with more users than PayPal.

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Frank Mayer

JANUARY 14, 2022

Autonomous Checkout. We can’t discuss customer experience predictions for 2022 without mentioning one of the biggest disrupters in the recent past – autonomous checkout. One such company is Grabango , a leading provider of checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale store chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Since Amazon Prime’s inception 15 years ago, Amazon has only increased the annual membership cost three times — rising from $79 per year in 2005 to $119 in 2018. When Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2018, analysts expected that Amazon would dominate the U.S. The purchasing power of $79 in 2005 equals about $109.90 grocery market.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

Riley : When I first came on board as CEO in February 2018, I wanted to get us out in front of a lot of consumers. We tweaked our search and checkout capabilities and have increased our retention rate. You have to make sure you are offering frictionless checkout. You have to do the important housekeeping on your web site.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2021

In 2018, 151 million conventional (non-bot) attacks were observed, and of these, 91 million were directed at online merchants. For companies that can keep the fraudsters in check there’s a double advantage: a simpler and safer checkout experience for the customer, and greater profits for the retailer.

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Wiser

JANUARY 25, 2022

You might have evidence that a display near the checkout performs better than the back of the store. Tempt Shoppers at Checkout. We’ve all seen it—the checkout aisle lined with more products, all easy to toss in the cart before hitting the register. Then you should propose that your products be placed at checkout.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The fact that in 2018 there were only 500 licences of online sales of liquor in NSW, and that post-Covid there are now more than 3000 holding online liquor licences makes you wonder how rigorous Liquor & Gaming NSW has been in supporting businesses to understand Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) principles,” Iacono told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2020

The less good news is that contactless cards were involved in 3% of card fraud in 2018 in the UK. Finally, remember that even though contactless payments keep your cards and hands from touching checkout terminals, it’s still important to regularly clean your hands, clean your phone and even clean your credit cards to protect your health.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2020

By using traditional date checking and stock rotation methods, employees waste valuable time that would be better used to relieve long lines and frustration at the checkout to enhance the customer experience. From 2015 to 2018, labor productivity in the grocery industry rose an average of 3.2% , largely driven by technological advances.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This year, Isetan-Mitsukoshi projects sales to return to pre-pandemic levels and even beat the record set in 2018. This was one of the factors leading to the introduction of dedicated tax-free checkouts.). In 2019, it brought in 233.5 billion yen, or about $2.5 per cent in 2020. The Chinese are still missing.

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M19 Retail

JULY 13, 2023

The MacLaren Group specializes in designing and delivering custom change management training solutions for software and hardware technology rollouts and has been training on Mi9 Retail products since 2018. “As Mi9 Retail is committed to innovation and customer service.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. followed by former #1 Shein , now bumped down to the #2 position. (It

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2018, a Sydney restaurant chain, Rashays Casual Dining, ventured into inclusive dining by hosting its first sensory hour. The Sunflower communicates to staff that customers may need more time when going through the checkout or may need assistance reading labels or reaching shelves.

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