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Dollar General to Trial 100% Self-Checkout Stores at 200 Locations

Retail TouchPoints

Dollar General already has self-checkout kiosks in 8,000 of its 18,000 stores and plans to increase that number to 11,000 by the end of this year. When combined with our data-driven inventory management, we believe these efforts will reduce store workload and drive greater efficiencies for our retail associates and leaders.”.

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Can Self-Service Kiosks Offer Support In Today’s Retail Conditions?

Frank Mayer

While more shoppers return to stores, retail self-service kiosks offer the safe contactless experience and endless aisle options they now seek. Before we dive into how self-service kiosks can assist retail, though, it’s important to address the more pressing concern about the industry first. The Retail Elephant in the Room.

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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. Self-checkout kiosks are ubiquitous today, but they add to the security challenges retailers face.

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McDonald’s outage underlines the risks of retailers becoming too reliant on tech

Inside Retail

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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Circle K Will Retrofit Stores To Pilot Autonomous Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

In the pilot store, shoppers can pay via a smartphone app for a completely touchless experience, or pay with cash or a card at a kiosk or traditional POS station.

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Solving the Shopping Mall ‘Identity Crisis’ with Community Data and Careful Curation

Retail TouchPoints

While some mall owners historically were opposed to the “kiosk concept,” Cegielski noted that most are changing their tune, largely due to the foot traffic benefits that come with integrating new and emerging brands — especially those that have a loyal and passionate following online.

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5G in Retail: Creating the WOW factor

Retail TouchPoints

5G can also connect mobile point-of-sale (POS) terminals , self-service kiosks, scan-and-go checkouts and other forms of frictionless shopping with ease. Better communication between in-store staff, store managers and supply chain personnel via 5G devices will allow for responding to customer queries. Tractor Supply Co.