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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. Now, Owens said the company also plans to begin testing a 100% self-checkout store format across 200 locations this year.

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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

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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. 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

I’ll need to bring my car because the footprint is so big, but I can go and run half a dozen errands on my list in one location, so that saves me time,” she explained. Mall owners have found that bringing in some of those smaller, startup type brands to a temporary space or kiosk is beneficial on both sides,” Cegielski said.

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Robots, RFID tags and an incubator area: Inside Decathlon’s new Data Lab

Inside Retail

The automation of laborious and manual tasks such as inventory management through the development of new technologies in the Data Lab allows our Decathlon teammates to do what they find most meaningful – fostering relationships with customers. Lastly, the Data Lab is located strategically within the Kallang Alive district.

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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

Bypassing intermediaries means brands control the trade margins through sales, marketing and inventory management. A case in point is Warby Parker, the poster child for the online DTC disruptor model, which now operates dozens of physical stores and plans to expand into many hundreds of locations.

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The Impact of AI Technologies on Retail: Examining Benefits and Transformations in Shopping

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Then, we’ll talk about how all types of retail businesses can use AI, from improving inventory management to customizing customer experience. They analyze performance on a store-by-store and location basis. In this blog post, we’ll explain Artificial Intelligence (AI) in simple language. Let’s take a closer look!