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Despite Recent Bad Press, Self-Checkout is Here to Stay. Here’s Why.

Retail TouchPoints

One self-checkout kiosk can run as much as $30,000 to install, and a study by the Food Industry Association found that 96% of the food industry retailers it surveyed offer self-checkout — meaning that self-checkout is unlikely to disappear from stores anytime soon. You need to have some store processes in place as well.

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Locals rebuff invaders: Inside Vietnam’s convenience stores war

Inside Retail

They grew quickly, relatively unchallenged by local operators. This year, Masan took a majority stake in the owner of the Phuc Long tea chain and began adding tea and coffee kiosks to its convenience stores. The company’s VinCommerce unit – into which South Korea’s SK Group invested nearly US$1.5

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#TBT: Service Merchandise Was the OG Multi-Channel Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

I have very vivid memories about Service Merchandise , a now-defunct business with a unique ordering process focused on catalog inventory. Service Merchandise was a bit more fun than today’s similar IKEA shopping experience because it carried more than mediocre DIY housewares and furniture. Don’t remember it? Ahead of its Time.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 271 – Amazon Q2 2021 Recap

Retail Geek

6:00] Um Extended the the new visual merchandising approach to to the Staffing and store operations yet so maybe a work in progress. Jason: [17:24] Yeah the in so I literally like looked at and then I might can I pay with Apple pay and then he like looked at me and said you mean NFC payment sure. [17:39] Scot: [17:23] Whoa really.