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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer will instead rely more heavily on its smart Amazon Dash Carts , which have been deployed at Fresh stores since 2020 as well as at Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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Sainsbury’s Deploys Amazon Just Walk Out Technology in London C-Store

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In the first usage of Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology by a non-Amazon international retailer, Sainsbury’s has deployed the cashierless solution in its Holborn Circus convenience store. Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019.

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Top 10 Trends Driving Retail Growth

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In fact, Walmart has designed its newest stores to be shopped while being guided by the app. 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.

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

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Smart-store tech will include robotics, expanded electronic shelf labels, shelf scanners to monitor product volumes and AI-powered computer vision to turn visual information into actionable data.

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Walking the Line: How a Post-Pandemic Retail Hybrid Might Make the Best of Both Worlds

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Facing a near-apocalyptic situation, retailers have had to pivot quickly, creatively and competently in order to withstand the chaos of the 2020 economy. Among the winning strategies was a shift to ecommerce operations. Now acquainted with online sales, consumers know how easy things can be.

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How to Deliver a Flawless In-Store Customer Experience

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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 most common area in-store that retailers focus on to improve customer engagement is at the Point of Sale (POS).

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Hudson Uses COVID Shutdown to Shave 5 Months off Transaction Platform Deployment

Retail TouchPoints

At the beginning of 2020, Hudson kicked off its deployment of the Flooid platform to provide a new backbone for all transactions across its 1,010 travel convenience stores and specialty retail, which includes proprietary book and tech stores, duty-free shops and food and beverage concessions.