Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Autonomous convenience store retailer Wundermart is expanding its operations, with plans to open more than 10,000 checkout-free stores in a partnership with contactless checkout company AiFi. Currently, human intervention is only needed for checking and refilling shelves, and even that process is largely guided by the software. “We

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2024

McDonald’s mobile app; its human-less, order-taking kiosks; its digitised menus that change based on trends, the weather and more; and even its generative AI — together, these enable McDonald’s to eke out additional sales and efficiencies worth billions of dollars to the company, which has 40,000 locations in roughly 100 countries.

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A1 Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Naturally Fast Food brand has introduced Adyen Giving charity donation service for payments on its new in-store kiosks. Adyen , the global payments platform, has announced the extension of its partnership with Naturally Fast Food brand, LEON to include Adyen Giving.

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Star Miconics

MARCH 29, 2024

This innovative method has facilitated the rapid processing and easy readability of product information by both computers and humans. This connectivity enables more accurate forecasting, streamlined operations, and more personalized customer experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s why retailers have introduced personalized experiences everywhere else on their sites — except, for some reason, checkout. For example, marketing and advertising campaigns are tailored around a shopper’s age, gender, geographic location, shopping history and other demographics. In-store kiosk? High or low price?

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Shoppers are focusing less on loyalty and more on their experience, with half of them saying they would switch to a new brand after just one bad customer service interaction. However, if customer service is excellent, 78% of consumers will do business with a company again, even after a mistake.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“Our mission is to transform spaces that have traditionally been kind of an afterthought and turn them into beautiful, customer-centric and revenue-generating spaces, ” Kloor said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Design concepts and even merchandise assortments are further customized based on the facility’s geographic location.

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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. Lastly, the Data Lab is located strategically within the Kallang Alive district.

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365 Retail

MAY 1, 2024

This change has moved from traditional shelf displays to digital screens, marking the dawn of a new era in shopping experiences. The digital revolution in retail is reshaping how we buy, sell, and interact with products and services. Many are integrating technology to enhance the customer experience.

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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. But one area that is often overlooked is kitchen technology.

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Star Miconics

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This is typically the final stop on the customer’s journey before leaving. The POS is where the payment process begins and ends, and the entire customer experience there must be seamless. Otherwise, retailers risk never seeing that customer again. Self-Service Kiosks. Mobile Payments.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

Customers may be considering items that are not necessarily new but new to them, by purchasing second-hand items. IR : What opportunities do you see to continue experimenting with physical retail in the year ahead? These actions ensure our co-workers can remain focused on ‘value-add’ engagements for customers.

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Star Miconics

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Employees or customers can enter and manage orders, purchases, payments, inventory, and more. Future-proofing POS workstations can help combat the most significant struggles faced by the hospitality industries: Labor Shortages Online ordering management Delivery automation New payment methods. Labor Shortages.

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Indigo 9 Digital

AUGUST 2, 2022

It is an initiative aimed at connecting online and offline retail and digitizing stores in order to provide a better customer experience. Digital payments including facial recognition. When customers are finished shopping they pay using Hema's mobile app which is linked to Alipay. Automated service using robots.

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A1 Retail

JULY 2, 2021

A manufacturer of self-service systems, Amtek (now a Custom company ) is enhancing the automated sale of products and services with an expanding range of ‘Click & Collect’ kiosks. The customer then enters an emailed/SMS code number onto the touchscreen enabled units located outside the warehouse.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

Solana Spaces opened its first permanent location July 28, 2022 at The Shops at Hudson Yards in Manhattan. For those who had the chance to visit b8ta before the chain was shuttered earlier this year , Solana Spaces will feel familiar, not least because the location it occupies at Hudson Yards used to be a b8ta store.

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Cross Cap

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A guest post by our friends from Pivotal Payments. But instead of rolling over, physical retailers can use this so-called “retail apocalypse” as a catalyst to evaluate their approach to customer experience – perhaps the one edge they have over their cyber counterparts. Orders are placed online and picked up at a local branch.

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing the retail experience to wherever the customer is located will be an important ongoing strategy for success. . Without effective technological solutions, pop-up retail can be an exercise in frustration for both vendors and customers,” Stacy Hamer, VP of Client Experiences at iQmetrix , said.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

T HE SIT-DOWN RESTAURANT, fast-casual and QSR sectors continue to impress us with their adaptations to the rigors of the Covid era, through the incorporation of compelling app features, tackling sustainability through design and packaging, and evolving to provide self-pickup and delivery services.

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Wiser

AUGUST 13, 2018

Making the shopping experience easier is always a plus, but overdoing omnichannel retail technology runs the risk of alienating shoppers. Take mobile payments, for example. As stores go cashless, they risk pushing out loyal customers who don’t have mobile devices or prefer to use other forms of payment.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The centrality of the POS has led both retailers and solution providers to integrate it with other fundamental operational systems, from inventory and order management to customer relationship management (CRM) and, of course, payments. Part and parcel of that is headless architecture.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Implementing new omnichannel technologies at brick-and-mortar locations in particular appears to be a big focus for the year, as retailers look to capitalize on increased footfall to offset smaller basket sizes. Regardless of the method, the result is the demise of the cash wrap as we know it. “If

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2021

Circle K is rolling out a network of bitcoin ATMs at 700 of its locations across the U.S. Bitcoin Depot ATMs are kiosks that enable users to exchange cash for immediate access to multiple types of cryptocurrency, not just bitcoin. and Canada in an exclusive partnership with Bitcoin Depot. 24-25, 2021.

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