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Why Amazon’s New “Just Walk Out” Supermarkets Will Change Everything. Forever

Retail Focus

The idea eliminates checkout lines. Their apps open, supermarket executives also enquire: “But who’ll own the data …?”. 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.

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Schnucks Deploys ‘Caper Carts’ to Provide Checkout on Wheels

Retail TouchPoints

Schnuck Markets has extended its partnership with Instacart to introduce Caper Carts, which use AI and computer vision to automatically identify items shoppers put into them, allowing shoppers to then skip the line and check out using the cart technology. The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St.

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Aussie supermarkets have a trust problem. Here’s how they can fix it

Inside Retail

At the big end of town, Woolies X, with its embedded Quantium research is driving the customer data revolution for team green, while Wesfarmers’ OneDigital promises to play catch up and unleash the power of Flybuys with a huge commitment in talent and marketing (what about that AFL Grand Final budget).

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How the World Cup could be a nightmare for Britain’s supermarkets

Inside Retail

The winter World Cup has added a new level of uncertainty to the Christmas trading outlook of Britain’s supermarkets: How do you persuade cash-strapped shoppers to buy yule logs and luxury biscuits at the same time as beer and pizza? Running between Nov. 20 and Dec. This will be separate to the dedicated space for Christmas products.

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How to Make Sense of the Complex Modern Grocery Retail Landscape 

Retail TouchPoints

still plan to cook more at home. While this may sound positive for supermarkets, it also brings new challenges. First, supermarkets must determine exactly how much inventory to order so as not to waste food or purchase insufficient supplies. Despite dining out becoming an unrestricted option once again, 71% of people in the U.S.

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Supermarkets – how retail is changing for the giants of grocery

I Vend

The COVID surge for supermarkets The pandemic hit many retailers hard, with stores shut and high streets deserted. According to industry experts The Grocer magazine, UK supermarkets continue to see high levels of growth. iVend Supermarket iVend helps supermarkets offer uninterrupted service to their customers.

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Aldi launches Corner Store in convenience push

Inside Retail

Discount supermarket Aldi is making a push into convenience with the opening this week of a Corner Store concept in North Sydney. The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips.