Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And, according to Pegasus Print Group Sales Manager Ross Muirhead, Point of Sale displays will always have a place in creating exciting, memorable and profitable shopping experiences for your customers as long as we live and breathe in a physical world. Next, you need to think about the location of the display.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Convenience store retailer Royal Farms will implement NCR Corporation ’s self-checkout solutions in all of its more than 250 locations. Self-checkout has become an important option for today’s touch-conscious shoppers, and its adoption is only expected to increase. million units by 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

Amazon is continuing to expand the reach of its Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless checkout tech with a particular focus on events-based venues. The Quick Six store will open on June 1, 2023, at Six Flags Great Adventure, and a second location will open later this year at Magic Mountain in Los Angeles. “We

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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

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 NCR has been an incredible partner along this journey and its self-checkout solution brings an important capability to our stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

including new payment and checkout options, personalized styling facilitated by smart mirrors and upgraded delivery and return options. COS (which stands for Collection of Style) is owned by H&M and currently operates 13 locations across the U.S. location, with additional locations getting the upgrades later this year.

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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.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The retailer recently debuted its first store to be retrofitted with checkout-free technology at the University of Houston campus. Cashierless solution providers want to make it easier for retailers to embrace checkout-free stores by providing with the ability to retrofit existing locations versus building from scratch.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

URBN , parent company of Urban Outfitters , Anthropologie , Free People and FP Movement , will adopt Stripe as its primary payments infrastructure for both online and in-store sales, consolidating the majority of its North American payments volume onto the solution provider.

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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. We will not have to relocate merchandise, replace shelves or build an entirely new store to implement autonomous checkout.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Say ‘Hello’ to the New BuyBuy Baby Now those 11 stores, which are located along the East Coast, from Massachusetts to Maryland, will reopen in November as part of the brand’s initial relaunch under its new owners. The BuyBuy Baby IP, digital properties and 11 store leases were acquired by Dream on Me in late July 2023.

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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

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 MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

million mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices in the U.S. Below are five practical use cases for retail-based mobile point-of-sale. The customer gets in and out of your store faster and you close more sales. Business Insider reported , in 2016, that there would be 27.7

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Eight of our concessions locations are already using Just Walk Out technology and seeing great results. At computer vision-based checkout-free stores, products are arranged on shelves or tables so the system can see which items are being taken,” wrote Jon Jenkins, VP for Just Walk Out technology and AWS Applications in a blog post.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 1, 2024

Friction as a Function Modern shoppers expect always-on, always-accessible, do-it-yourself experiences thanks to self-checkouts, online shopping and connected tech. Retailers have, for years, focused on streamlining shopper journeys by reducing friction throughout sales floors to facilitate seamless, enjoyable experiences.

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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. The opening, which took place Sept. 26, 2023, comes despite Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s February 2023 announcement that the retailer would halt expansion of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store footprints.

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Star Miconics

JANUARY 26, 2023

But while those things are still in the realm of science fiction, AI has become increasingly engrained in the modern technology we now use every day, from our smartphones to our point-of-sale (POS) systems. AI helps consumers and workers streamline their activities and increase productivity. But what is artificial intelligence?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Take Stock of the Inventory Amid the digital transformation of retail, technologies such as SquareSpace have become more commonplace at the point of sale, while self-service kiosks and cashierless checkouts are now ubiquitous. Invest now to save later.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

“Now more than ever, it is critical for us at Sephora to be able to adapt to the quickly changing retail environment, and that’s especially important at the point of sale,” said Sree Sreedhararaj, SVP and CTO at Sephora in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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. Simplifying Checkout In this case, “simplifying checkout” means embracing “self-checkout.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

Businesses can collect real-time data on how the goods are stored and transported, their location and their condition during delivery. Smart merchandising helped GetGo improve the consumer experience and increase sales. Self-checkout. The solution can be placed anywhere from retail stores to stadiums and cafeterias.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

million mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices in the U.S. Below are five practical use cases for retail-based mobile point-of-sale. The customer gets in and out of your store faster and you close more sales. Business Insider reported , in 2016, that there would be 27.7

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

The idea eliminates checkout lines. Let’s consider first the effects of Just Walk Out on retail environments: No checkouts equals 8-12% floor space saved. No checkouts affords a more motivated customer-facing team. And Amazon now offers other retailers this same ability. The genius is the technology helps rather than deflects.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

Michael Harms, owner of omnichannel retailer Barrowby Green, upgraded to Square Point of Sale for Retail when the company opened its first physical store. “I Square’s system also allows retailers to accept returns at any location and seamlessly process exchanges. Offer not valid with guest checkout.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In another first, customers access the checkout solution via the Sainsbury SmartShop app rather than the Amazon app, meaning they can use an interface they already are familiar with. A checkout-free Chartwells convenience store debuted in November 2020 at its University of Houston location using technology from Standard.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

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. Location, location. Walmart scores highest in our survey for the app shoppers love most.

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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 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2022

During the past two years, Hudson has been enhancing its offerings with self-checkout technology and new store designs. Later that year, Hudson debuted the Evolve shop-in-shop concept at the company’s Dallas Love Field location, deploying the Amazon One palm recognition technology and offering BOPIS service for duty free shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Self-Checkout/Roaming Checkout. Versions of self-checkout are already in play for grocery, big box and a variety of other stores, mostly to reduce wait times at registers. Roaming checkout enables employees to take payments from shoppers from anywhere inside the store.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Contactless Checkout and Payment: Stores will include self-checkout kiosks as well as contactless payment solutions, including Walmart Pay, to limit contact between associates and customers. Select locations will also have Scan & Go to help customers manage their checkout directly.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Doors have opened on a new concept store from Starbucks and Amazon Go aims to combine comfort and convenience by bringing together the lounge aesthetic of a Starbucks café and Amazon’s Just Walk Out cashierless checkout tech.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The digitization of brick-and-mortar stores is nothing new, but up until recently it has primarily been focused on surfaces in the store that are already digital: point-of-sale systems or back-of-house tasks like inventory management. and Vancouver, Wash. —

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I Vend

MARCH 14, 2023

Retailers have to find a way to make the shopping experience more human, engaging and personalised and many are turning to the smart use of retail technology, specifically mobile point of sale, or mPOS. Checkout – the shopper can avoid queues at the fixed POS, by completing the contactless payments at the mPOS.

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