Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

For retailers, self-checkout is something of a double-edged sword. There’s no doubt the technology can bring tremendous benefits, such as allowing more customers to pay at the same time, thus reducing wait times without having to staff additional cashier stations. It’s a rigorous, complicated and lengthy process.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2021

GIANT has added frictionless just walk out technology at a grab-and-go convenience store located at its Philadelphia ecommerce fulfillment center. It’s a particularly relevant capability for a location like this, where team members would otherwise need to travel off site to purchase food products.”. It’s that easy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

H&M Group is rolling out a pilot of several new tech-enabled in-store shopping solutions at COS stores in the U.S., including new payment and checkout options, personalized styling facilitated by smart mirrors and upgraded delivery and return options. location, with additional locations getting the upgrades later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Location-Powered Experiences Drive Results. Leading retailers have addressed these challenges head-on by adopting new technology such as location infrastructure. Leading retailers have addressed these challenges head-on by adopting new technology such as location infrastructure. Offer rapid turnaround for on-premise orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

parent company of the Circle K convenience store chain, will purchase more than 10,000 touchless self-checkout systems, with plans to deploy them in more than 7,000 Circle K and Couche-Tard stores in the U.S., The Mashgin system, branded as “Smart Checkout,” relies on AI-powered technology that can improve customer checkout time up to 400%.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The convenience store experience just got more convenient at Chartw ells , a division of Compass Group that operates thousands of stores on college and corporate campuses. The retailer recently debuted its first store to be retrofitted with checkout-free technology at the University of Houston campus.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2022

Holiday Oil Company , a convenience store retailer with 67 locations in Utah, has selected the Gilbarco Veeder-Root Passport Express Lane self-checkout system, to help ease its labor challenges and create a frictionless shopping experience. For employees, it helps balance out staffing shortages and maintain store standards.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Global travel retailer WHSmith has opened its first North American retail location inside the redesigned Terminal B concourse at New York City’s LaGuardia airport. The store is equipped with Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology, offering travelers a checkout-free shopping experience. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Omnichannel retailer solution provider GK has launched scanless checkout through GK Go , part of its CLOUD4RETAIL service suite. Additionally, GK Go includes the option to let shoppers opt in for real-time offers and personalization based on preferences, basket content, shopping history, location in the store and other attributes.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

After a successful pilot of stationary self-checkout technology at its recently renovated NYC flagship store, Bed Bath & Beyond will deploy solutions from NCR at select locations nationwide. “As Flagship shoppers also can access “scan and buy” capabilities that allow them to bypass the store’s checkout lines.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Discount ecommerce app Wish has teamed up with parcel pickup and drop-off network Pudo to offer customers click-and-collect options at more than 1,200 locations across the U.S. Additionally, Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish, with revenues down 42% YoY to $78 million. and Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Koyo Group , which operates convenience stores and restaurants in hospitals and other facilities across Japan, has partnered with Zippin and Fujitsu to open a checkout-free store in the Yokohama Techno Tower Hotel in Kanagawa. We believe that there is big growth potential for checkout-free retail in Japan.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Discount retailer Aldi may be a novice when it comes to in-store technology in Australia, but it has plans afoot in the UK to launch an advanced system that will replace checkout entirely. They can then proceed through the store to pick up their items and walk out when they are finished, without making a payment at a till.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

“Payments are a critical link between our brands and millions of URBN customers who expect checkouts to be as easy as trying on or adding items to a cart,” said Dave Hayne, CTO at URBN in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

Circle K will pilot a touchless autonomous checkout solution in one of its Phoenix locations and plans to add the technology to other store locations. In the pilot store, shoppers can pay via a smartphone app for a completely touchless experience, or pay with cash or a card at a kiosk or traditional POS station.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2023

Over the past year, the retail giant has been working with the AFL and Delaware North, a global hospitality company, to install two checkout-free venues at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne. The Runner at Marvel Stadium. Say hello to the 24/7 store Staffing challenges present another strong use case for checkout-free stores. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

DTC brand Good American has introduced a new immersive in-store experience at its LA flagship in the Westfield Century City mall, powered by a series of Samsung commercial LED displays. Good American will soon open new store locations at the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas and Fashion Island in Newport Beach, Calif.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

More than nine locations at NFL venues, including Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium and Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn., We see a big opportunity to maximize underused space in numerous locations, from narrow concourses in venues and airports to high-traffic walkways on college campuses.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Amazon is bringing its Amazon Go convenience store format to the suburbs with the launch of a location in Mill Creek, Wash. The retailer also is planning an Amazon Go location in the Los Angeles metro area. in the coming months, according to Business Insider , MarketWatch and other media outlets.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

At the time of sale for any product, the built-in integration with our store platform uses the RFID system to tell us what’s in the inventory so it knows it’s not lost or missing,” said Sandeep Baghel, VP of Information Systems at Perry Ellis in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. It’s a productivity gain.”

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2023

Zippedi” robots Leah Balter, Bunnings’ chief transformation officer, told Inside Retail that the brand has a number of projects underway, which are aimed at reducing the number of hours that staff spend on manual, repetitive and administratived tasks. In particular, the technology is able to scan store aisles outside of trading hours.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Following the fall 2020 launch of its Amazon One contactless biometric palm reader in two Amazon Go stores, the retailer has rolled out the technology to a total of eight retail locations throughout the Seattle area, according to reporting in TechCrunch and other publications.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Target is rolling out multiple initiatives aimed at improving in-store safety during the holiday season, including contactless self-checkout, skip-the-line technology and doubling the number of contactless pickup parking spots. They can then check out with an associate or at self-checkout as they normally would.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Customers at the Valparaiso store can access the same benefits available at the retailer’s corporate-owned stores, including same-day Instacart delivery, curbside pickup, in-store mobile checkout, virtual one-on-one nutritionist appointments and the retailer’s Health Awards loyalty program.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Autonomous convenience store retailer Wundermart is expanding its operations, with plans to open more than 10,000 checkout-free stores in a partnership with contactless checkout company AiFi. You should be capable of easily opening up autonomous shops, and it needs to be cost-effective.”.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Essentially, shoppers could walk in, scan a QR code from their Amazon mobile app at a turnstile, add their items to their baskets within the store, and just walk out when they were finished. If they opt for the autonomous checkout, customers need to use the Rewe app to register at the entrance to the store. Cutting down costs.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

what3words’ and DHL Parcel UK partnership continues to grow as the location technology is now available for DHL Parcel UK’s retail partners at checkout what3words, the innovative global location technology company and DHL Parcel UK have today announced a brand new element of their partnership.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

Following the news that Amazon Fresh had closed its Dalston, London location at the weekend, less than 18 months after opening it, a new checkout-free Amazon Fresh c-store opened today (24 January) in Croydon, London. The new store at Unit 1, Ruskin Square is open from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm, seven days a week.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Not-for-profit store operator Community Enterprise Queensland (CEQ) is the sole grocery and retail provider for many remote communities located across northern Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands. In the locations where we operate, it could cost $30,000 and involve two different trips on a helicopter.

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VMS

DECEMBER 13, 2021

BP (London) is the latest retailer to test frictionless checkout technology in its convenience stores, reports Forbes. Next year, BP will test automated checkout technology from San Francisco-based startup Grabango at ten of its Amoco-branded locations. BP operates 7000 U.S.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Landsec has today announced the official opening of international fashion retailer, ZARA, at One New Change, the premier retail and leisure destination in the City of London. This function also enables customers to book fitting rooms and locate items easily in store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Gap will experiment with new ideas through four new retail spaces at its San Francisco headquarters, designed to support the Old Navy , Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta brands. Flexible retail stores that double as labs have led to some of the most interesting innovations of the past few years, both customer-facing and on the back end.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2021

Consumers are increasingly drawn to convent checkout experiences, from mobile POS and self-checkout to grab-and-go tech, and now even autonomous stores. The fully autonomous NanoStore is customizable and can be operated in any location with Verizon 5G coverage. Autonomous Retail Becoming a Global Phenomenon. In the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s no secret that retailers and brands have become obsessed with driving conversion in their quest to recover the more than half of shoppers who abandon checkout before completing their purchase. Maximizing that combination of factors can be accomplished at checkout, as long as it’s not stripped of all its goodness.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2024

NBCUniversal has unveiled a series of new capabilities aimed at “bringing television advertising into the performance marketing future” and enhancing TV-enabled commerce opportunities as it readies for the kickoff of the Summer Olympics on July 26, 2024. NBCU’s new Virtual Concessions ad format.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

Shopify – the commerce platform powering 25 per cent of online retail in Australia – is equally proficient at managing in-store retail transactions, making it the go-to supplier of solutions for retailers transacting across multiple channels. In this day and age, that is pretty much every Australian retailer.

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