Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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. These [second locations] take those shoppers out of the regular store’s aisles into a space that can be fully automated with robotics, floor to ceiling.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 29, 2023

The customer service representative emerges as a pivotal figure, often embodying the company’s image. This article details the specifics of crafting a precise and comprehensive customer service representative job description tailored for a small business environment. Processing payments and refunds.

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Frank Mayer

APRIL 21, 2022

Self-service kiosks continue to rise in popularity as a powerful tool benefitting businesses and their customer experience strategies. With this rise in interest comes more inquiries about everything from payment options and ADA compliance to software integration. Should I consider self-service for my business?

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2023

Documents listed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) show Calia Australia, which operates the flagship restaurant and retail store in the city’s Emporium shopping complex and a spin-off restaurant at the Chadstone shopping centre, appointed voluntary administrators on June 28.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

Increasingly, however, their focus has turned to the large amounts of data processed at the “edge,” and not just transactional information: inventory, sensor, capacity, video, performance — across tens to hundreds of devices in each store. Edge systems process data in real time.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

Square is revolutionising the way small and medium-sized retailers can manage inventory and payments through a combination of next-generation hardware and custom-built software. All of the retailer’s sales are automatically tracked in one place allowing inventory across all channels to be updated the instant a sale occurs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2023 pilot showed that the self-checkout experience was twice as fast at stores with the Express model compared to those without. “By Despite some consumer and retailer complaints about self-checkout , the technology is well entrenched in retail store operations.

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Star Miconics

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

If you’re looking to start your own wash-and-fold laundry service (also known as wash-dry-fold) or add it to your current laundromat or dry-cleaning business, you’ll have to make sure you have the right point-of-sale (POS) hardware for the job. What is a Wash-and-Fold Laundry Service?

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon has incorporated RFID capabilities into its Just Walk Out cashierless technology to handle the sale of apparel and fan gear at two Seattle sports venues. Eight of our concessions locations are already using Just Walk Out technology and seeing great results.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Amazon ’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology has been deployed in more than 120 third-party locations, including airports, stadiums, university campuses, convenience stores and theme parks. Non-staff members can use credit cards, mobile wallets, QR codes or the Amazon One palm payment system to enter and shop at the checkout-free stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

Evaluate Your Retail Store’s Location. Every retail store has unique property characteristics that should be taken into consideration when deciding on physical security — one of which includes where your store is located.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

From contactless payment to fully automated checkout, innovations showed promise for streamlining and improving the customer experience. The “frictionless” label applies to a number of different technologies; many of them associated with the checkout process. Now, they have the added appeal of more hygienic shopping as well.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

ALDIgo, using technology from Grabango , tracks which items shoppers put in their carts; customers can then pay with a credit or debit card or the Grabango app at cashierless pay stations or they can use traditional manned lanes. Amazon , one of the pioneers of cashierless solutions, has been moving away from deployments in supermarkets.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

According to Grand View Research , the global IoT retail market was valued at $42.38 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 28.4% The statistics show that more and more retail businesses are implementing IoT solutions to explore new ways of connecting with customers, boost sales and streamline business operations.

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Retail Bound

APRIL 13, 2024

From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Traditional Inventory: Beyond the Basics Operational Dynamics: Retailers purchase products in bulk, store them, and then ship them out as orders come in.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

To attract a new generation of shoppers, retailers are looking to redefine go-to-market strategies and reimagine the customer experience inside their physical store locations. To accomplish this, operational models need to be adapted quickly.

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Star Miconics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Investing in the right restaurant technologies can be the key to success for many restaurants, especially multi-location chains. In fact, 71% of food service companies surveyed in North America believe digital transformation is the most important factor towards agility. Point-of-Sale System (POS). And it shouldn’t be.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Integration of new 11th generation INTEL processors. YUNO II is equipped with a choice of three new 11th generation INTEL processors (J6412 Elkhart Lake, i3 or i5 Tiger Lake); these powerful processors are part of the INTEL Embedded family and guarantee remarkable performance and increased reliability at the point of sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Unfortunately, like many seemingly good ideas, while this approach might drive a few more completed purchases, it fails at the bigger picture metrics that these retailers actually care about: revenue and profit. 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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2024

The transition to an omnichannel payment operations platform represents a significant positioning as a technology leader for BridgerPay, filling the untapped gap of omnichannel orchestration and payment operations that exists in the world, a pain shared by many enterprise merchants that run a multi-channel business.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2022

Decathlon’s Data Lab in Singapore is the latest facet of the brand’s pursuit of innovation and part of its efforts to develop new digital services and incubate data projects, in collaboration with partners such as Sport Singapore, research agencies, and schools.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The chatter of the store “being dead” is evolving from belief that the physical store is fading amid the shift to digital, to seeing that it’s the role of the store that is changing — and a vital one at that. Roaming checkout enables employees to take payments from shoppers from anywhere inside the store. AR and the Metaverse.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2024

After MrConsumer was inadvertently charged tax at checkout, he details a series of confusing conversations with Walgreens’s staff about how sales tax works and his eligibility for a refund. Class Action attorneys are always looking for retailers over-applying sales tax. For him, job No.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

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. According to one survey , an astonishing 67% of shoppers said they’d experienced a failure at the self-checkout lane.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon had announced plans to close eight Amazon Go stores in March 2023 and reportedly closed a Seattle location in June 2023. Amazon appears to be putting more of its corporate weight behind its Amazon Fresh banner, with a new store design and an expansion of delivery services to non-Prime members announced in August 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2022

Amazon has unveiled a new and improved version of its smart shopping cart — called the Dash Cart — and plans to roll out the carts at select Whole Foods Market stores for the first time. First deployed in 2020 , Dash Carts are already available at many Amazon Fresh stores across the U.S.

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Star Miconics

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Whether you run a retail store, restaurant, or mobile food truck, you need reliable and seamless printing technology for smooth operations. Key Benefits of SteadyLAN Reliable Connectivity: A steady network link for iPad & Android POS systems ensures continuous operations without Wi-Fi dependency.

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A1 Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The additional service will allow JD Group customers to make charitable donations to the JD Foundation, specifically the Together We Can project, as part of their payments journey through Pennies’ charity box. Pennies is a leading fintech charity, that offers a digital charity box option that can be integrated into the point of sale.

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V Count

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re running a brick-and-mortar business, you may want to invest in one of these point-of-sale systems. POS is actually an acronym for point of sale (also known as point of purchase). Point of sale refers to the time and place where a transaction is completed.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

The entire checkout process can be completed in 10 seconds. We’re committed to investing in and scaling technology that sets a new standard for convenience with our customers and advances our mission to make our customers’ lives a little easier every day,” said Magnus Tägtström, VP of Global Innovation at Couche-Tard in a statement. “We

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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. The parent company operates nearly 14,500 convenience stores worldwide.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

The secret lies in having a deep understanding of your customer journey, informed by a combination of real-time customer feedback and operational data. Operational data (such as CRM, clickstream, app usage, purchase data etc), can tell you who, what , when , where and how the experience took place. How can I get started quickly?

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2023

They expect tailored content that aligns with their lifestyle, irrespective of location, preferred device or even time – placing greater strain on today’s stores. It goes beyond being a point of sale and becomes a destination that offers immersive experiences, blurring the online and offline realms.

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