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Grubhub Deploys Cashierless Checkouts at Campus C-Store

Retail TouchPoints

Using the Amazon “Just Walk Out” technology, Grubhub Campus has introduced cashierless checkout at convenience stores at Loyola University Maryland. Students, faculty and staff scan a QR code to enter the store, pick their items and leave, with the payment deducted from their student meal plan or other stored payment methods.

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

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Truist Park in Atlanta is another stadium recognizing the impact of fast concessions and the huge success of self-checkout in grocery and retail stores worldwide. Last year, it implemented several self-checkout stations for its market concessions. Leaving the Friction in the Dugout For some, that’s still too much human interaction.

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Instacart’s Long-Awaited IPO Values Company at $10 Billion

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The IPO valuation represents a significant decline from early 2021, at the height of the COVID pandemic, when Instacart raised funding at a $39 billion valuation. The share price jumped in the IPO’s debut to $42 , according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

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The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. margin points when their customers’ journeys are not optimized, but when they are optimized, they can recover about 70% of that margin loss,” explained Buzek.

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Is unified commerce the new holy grail?

Inside Retail

It connects, on a centralised and measurable platform, several touchpoints and interactions a customer has with the brand or business: payments, rewards, inventory, delivery options, product return, supply chain, fulfilment options, and more. The smarter fulfilment models might even make this happen on the same or next day.

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Walmart Canada Will Invest $3.5 Billion To Modernize Stores, DCs And Supply Chain

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At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Top 10 Trends Driving Retail Growth

Retail TouchPoints

And 2021 was itself a record year for foot traffic. This drove the 18% sales growth last year in brick-and-mortar stores, while ecommerce sales grew 14%. It’s also why retailers are spending billions on new store openings, up 13% versus 2021. Checkout is moving to frictionless. The good news for shoppers?

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