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Walmart customers kept accidentally buying $49 Walmart+ memberships at self-checkout, forcing the company to abruptly yank a promotion

Retail Wire

Walmart has removed a promotion for its Walmart+ membership program from its self-checkout screens after customers accidentally purchased memberships. The promotion was part of.

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Ahead of the Holidays, Here’s What Ecommerce can Learn from Self-Checkout Shortcomings

Retail TouchPoints

As ecommerce has become a part of everyday life, customers have felt empowered to take control of their checkout experiences both in-store and at home. A recent study found shoppers of all demographics are warming up to the idea of self-checkout, seeing it as a faster option that eliminates the need to wait in line.

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GK Helps Retailers Enable Checkout-Free Store Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

Omnichannel retailer solution provider GK has launched scanless checkout through GK Go , part of its CLOUD4RETAIL service suite. Shoppers can use an app to see all relevant information about their basket as they shop, including items, price, additional product info, total cost so far, and promotions and coupons that have been redeemed.

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Checkmate Helps Retailers Offer Promotions Without Clogging Inboxes

Retail TouchPoints

The tool gathers the best deals from a shopper’s personal email and the web and automatically applies them at checkout. Checkmate also can enable shoppers to store discounts and gift cards in a digital wallet that can remind them at checkout that they are there.

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Wildfire Systems Lets Loyalty Programs Automatically Find and Apply Promotions

Retail TouchPoints

The Couponator feature aims to improve the shopping experience by ensuring shoppers automatically get the best deal at checkout. The tool eliminates one of the steps needed to activate promotions, with the goal of reducing friction during the shopping journey for loyalty program members.

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Schnucks Deploys ‘Caper Carts’ to Provide Checkout on Wheels

Retail TouchPoints

Customers will be able to use their Schnucks Rewards account with the carts, providing them with access to clipped promotions and allowing them to view weekly circular deals as they browse the aisles. “We

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What Rewe’s hybrid concept says about the future of checkout-free stores

Inside Retail

According to the Trigo CEO Michael Gabay, the Berlin location is nearly double the size of the Cologne store, where the concept debuted, and has additional offerings, such as promotional baskets, crates of beer and other bulk items, as well as pans and kitchen utensils. Already at it in Singapore.

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