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Despite Recent Bad Press, Self-Checkout is Here to Stay. Here’s Why.

Retail TouchPoints

This is the first part of our two-part series, “ From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we go beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. Plus, despite all the vocal naysayers, many consumers actually like the technology.

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Eat, shop, play, repeat: Behind Central Retail’s winning mall formula

Inside Retail

Does anyone remember the ‘common area’ anymore, before ‘squeezing the asset’ became the norm and the open space was stuffed until it was blue in the face with kiosks, pop-ups and carts?) It has a small number of self-service checkouts but like most Thai supermarkets, still leans heavily on the traditional staffed checkouts.

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#TBT: Service Merchandise Was the OG Multi-Channel Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

After leaving the wholesale business, the couple opened Service Merchandise, Inc., This process was altered in the late 1980s to allow customers to place their own orders on a number of self-service computer kiosks named “Silent Sam,” which the company later renamed “Service Express.”

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Down, but not out: Welcome to the new physical retail

Inside Retail

Shoppers will be able to checkout the traditional way, or via self-checkout kiosks, or via a roving staff member’s mobile POS terminal. This enables shoppers to create a customised order across up to six restaurants on a single receipt by ordering onsite at Kroger stores via kiosks, or through the Kitchen United website and app.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 271 – Amazon Q2 2021 Recap

Retail Geek

Scot: [6:10] Well how did they decide from the shopping carts Niles big decluttered it you mentioned they have less cues but did they go to kind of more of like a kiosk kind of a much more clear, kind of Department kind of orientation or how. It just it doesn’t seem like they’ve. [6:00]