Retail Times

AUGUST 25, 2023

New Look has rolled out innovative return kiosks in partnership with ZigZag Global, a leading provider of technology-driven retail returns solutions, across a selection of their stores this week. Powered by ZigZag’s award-winning returns platform, the kiosks provide a free and convenient return option for customers.

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Secure Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

Here at Secure Retail the concept of self-ordering kiosks and unattended payments is nothing new to us. We have championed unattended and kiosk payments for several years, giving us the ability to offer fast, secure and reliable payments from a range of manufacturers and software partners. Samsung Kiosk.

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Frank Mayer

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Frank Mayer unveils temperature and health kiosk to help employees return to work safely. in Grafton recently developed a temperature and health-screening kiosk to help employees safely return to work during the coronavirus pandemic. The kiosk also disperses hand sanitizer that must be used to access the touch screen.

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A1 Retail

APRIL 12, 2024

Bagel Factory is set to bring its fast-growing enterprise to the city for the first time, selecting a kiosk on Liverpool ONE’s Wall Street. Liverpool ONE is also welcoming the return of The Bus Yard to Chavasse Park, partnering with the unique pop-up for a third time.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

announced a new partnership with online retailer Pair Eyewear to bring in-store Pair Eyewear kiosks to select Hy-Vee locations across the company’s eight-state region. The first kiosk will be located inside the new Grimes Hy-Vee in Grimes, Iowa. In addition to free standard shipping, Pair offers a 30-day free return or exchange policy.

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VMS

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Unlike static charging stations, ChargerGoGo allows customers to pick up a portable battery, charge their phones and then return the battery to any nearby ChargerGoGo kiosk, a first-of-its-kind service to debut at this scale. For more information about ChargerGoGo, visit www.ChargerGoGo.com. Learn about our submission guidelines.

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Frank Mayer

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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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Frank Mayer

MAY 10, 2021

teams with the Illinois-based cannabis dispensary on a self-service kiosk program for the business’s multiple locations. GRAFTON, WI – Consume Cannabis Company, a cannabis retailer that operates seven dispensaries throughout Illinois and Michigan, partnered with kiosk designer and manufacturer Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The report emphasised that restaurateurs need to invest in more efficient ways to find and engage customers in order to get a return on their investments as 49 per cent of consumers predict that they’ll order less food delivery in 2024, especially Gen Z and Millennial customers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2024

When I was a kid, the term ‘kiosk’ meant a building at the beach where we would go and buy ice creams and bags of candy with our loose change. The way things used to be in service, before many technological innovations kicked in, is almost unimaginable now; and perhaps we wouldn’t choose to return to that. I was born in the late 1970s.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2021

Does anyone actually like returns? Ecommerce retailers are looking for ways to minimize the bottom line impact of returns — some even forgoing recovering the product to save on shipping costs. Meanwhile, an astonishing 78% of consumers surveyed in BOXpoll from Pitney Bowes said their most recent online returns were inconvenient.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2024

According to a recent Euromonitor report, while consumer food-service value nears pre-pandemic levels in 2024, dining-in at restaurants will not return to pre-pandemic level until 2028 in Asia Pacific. Apac’s food-service spending surpassed pre-Covid levels in 2024, as revenues grew 12 per cent to more than US$1.2 trillion in 2023.

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Frank Mayer

MARCH 22, 2022

With the return of shopping at brick-and-mortar locations, customers’ new normal has pushed businesses to speed up their transitions into the omnichannel market to better bridge the gap between online and in-store experiences. And for various reasons, they have been hesitant to return. The Continued Rise of Self-Service Kiosks.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

The investment in digital services, as Ikea embarks on a 2 billion euro expansion in the United States, is in keeping with rival Wayfair, which last month launched a ‘Digital Design Studio’ – an in-store kiosk where shoppers can experiment with furniture styles and layout in a digital rendering of a room.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2022

Located 15 km from the CBD in the south-eastern suburb of Thornlie, the 14,577sqm development is anchored by Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets and is home to 42 specialty shops and kiosks. He added the shopping centre trades at a “remarkably” low specialty occupancy cost.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Other recent ecommerce innovations, and plans for the near future, include: Adding same-day grocery delivery in Texas through a partnership with Uber ; Making it easier for members to reschedule ecommerce deliveries, returns and pickups; Improving labels on fulfillment options to let shoppers easily determine what is available where, including whether (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Retailing is about maximizing return on the cost of assets — primarily products and service. As a result, while these companies — from taxis to transit kiosks — may have as a primary business a service or product, they are also now media companies. So is Volta a charging station company or a media company?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

There are a wide range of digital marketing solutions for retail brands to gather data — POS, interactive kiosks, loyalty programs and email marketing with QR codes, among others. This type of one-to-one proactive outreach about highly relevant topics is effective in driving return visits and sales of high-margin full-price items.

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Frank Mayer

JUNE 17, 2021

Self-service technologies like grocery kiosks and smart lockers can provide the kind of customer service that prompts shopper loyalty. Reduce wait times at the deli and meat counters with grocery kiosks We’ve all been at the back of the deli counter mob, silently tallying how many people are in front of us based on when we arrived.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2023

As consumers return to physical stores in the post-pandemic era, delivering a great in-store experience has become more critical than ever, says a leading retail technology expert. The return to bricks-and-mortar retailing is fuelling a rebound in network expansion by many major brands worldwide. It’s all about experiences now.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Defined as data customers are willing to give to brands/retailers in return for discounts via a loyalty/rewards program or email, zero-party data is an oft-overlooked form of data collection thanks to its simplicity, but is now having a moment that will likely turn it into a permanent fixture in retail marketer’s toolkit.

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Frank Mayer

JANUARY 5, 2021

With recent news of a vaccine, many noted the promise of safer shopping excursions will be met with eager shoppers ready to return to some normalcy. But with brick-and-mortar’s eventual return, customers will be met with a new kind of shopping trip thanks to lessons learned in 2020. The Art of Connection.

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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. The new feature enables customers to donate directly to LEON’s chosen charity when making payments on digital kiosks in-store.

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A1 Retail

MAY 10, 2023

DSS Europe returns to Munich on 5 th – 6 th July 2023 with a host of compelling speakers from across the industry, to explore ‘Engaging Experiences – Concepts, Creation & Content.’ It has been clear that over the last few years, Digital Signage and Kiosk applications have increasingly moved into the business-critical solution set.

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VMS

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Unlike static charging stations, ChargerGoGo allows customers to pick up a portable battery, charge their phones and then return the battery to any nearby ChargerGoGo kiosk, a first-of-its-kind service to debut at this scale.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But there are other factors at play: the dramatic shift to ecommerce, stale in-store inventory and a continued hesitancy to return to physical retail due to the pandemic indicates that the time for innovation in the mall is now. Gonzalez: I think that malls have been savvy in their partnerships with companies like Happy Returns.

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Star Miconics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

At VARTECH 2022, we’re showcasing: The return of the mPOP® with new direct iOS connectivity for all-day use. A kiosk printing solution that uses repositionable linerless label paper, the SK1-311 SK.

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A1 Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Thistles shopping centre is continuing to grow with the addition of two new stores, Leading Labels and Blue Inc, increasing its fashion offering to locals and visitors as life slowly returns to a new normal following the latest Covid 19 lockdown easing.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2022

We were able to manage the new circumstances that Covid-19 brought about owing to a number of innovations already deployed such as our fully RFID tagged stores as well as 100 per cent self-checkout kiosks with cashless payments, and the RFID-based conveyor system that enables our two-hour island-wide e-commerce fulfilment activities.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

Other solutions are more directly shopper-facing, using natural touch points to interface with shoppers throughout their visit: Smart kiosks , whether in-store or in common areas, can utilize computer vision to identify demographics and offer shoppers curated content, like product availability in stores, product recommendations and pricing.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

While many shoppers are still reluctant to return to physical stores, they still see the value of (and often miss) the in-store experience. It’s all about the customer intimacy and the economics of what options we can offer them.”. Snap Sees AR Playing an Ever-Growing Role in Retail During the Coming Quarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2021

Some are testing delivery robots, others self-serve mobile kiosks, and some are simply retrofitting flagship, high-traffic locations with AI cameras and sensors. Prior to the pandemic, many grocery and CPG brands had started piloting AI-driven technology or autonomous features in stores.

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Star Miconics

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Self-Service Kiosks. Self-checkout kiosks can really be a “two birds, one stone” solution for the holidays: they can alleviate your limited staff’s workload while also giving customers the option to pay at their own pace and without having to worry about coming in contact with another person.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 9, 2022

Qualifying expenses include supplies or upgrades related to health and safety, including disinfectants, new HVAC equipment, touchless kiosks, and outdoor-space expansions. Credits will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, and businesses must receive approval by December 31 to apply credits to their 2022 tax returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon can display larger items, on which return rates are high, and which can benefit from such showrooming. They may not necessarily stock these items at these showrooms and fulfillment centers, but they can be ordered using Amazon mobile apps, websites and kiosks.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2021

College students will likely return to campuses in the fall, and retailers should already be preparing to greet them. The impact of this is already being felt with data: younger shoppers are more willing to share their information, but they expect hyperpersonalization in return.

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A1 Retail

JUNE 18, 2021

Innovative dog bakery and boutique, The Barkery by Frenchie Frenchie , has also just opened a mall kiosk in the centre, selling dog treats and other pet products. With shoppers out and about again and a level of certainty returning, brands are focused on securing high quality spaces – with strong footfall and an appealing existing tenant mix.

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