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Shekel Introduces Contactless Checkout Solution For Grocers

Retail TouchPoints

Fast Track also can help improve accuracy for retailers, which can boost loss prevention, reduce errors at checkout and create a better self-checkout experience for customers. Fast Track aims to eliminate the need for consumers to enter product codes via touchscreens by automatically recognizing produce, bakery and specialty items.

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While tech giants have their heads in the clouds, this is why other retailers don’t need to follow suit

A1 Retail

As counterintuitive as it is, we all know losses are an accepted norm in retailing. Factored into the bottom line, as sales increase for stores, so will the losses of product inventory. Loss prevention teams call this inevitable outcome “external shrinkage”. However, these limitations are not a bad thing.

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Hy-Vee to Deploy Armed Security Officers

VMS

Grocer Hy-Vee (West Des Moines, Iowa) will deploy armed “retail security officers to protect the safety of both Hy-Vee customers and employees,” reports The Times Republican. Officers will complete a program created by Hy-Vee retail security along with law enforcement.