Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

parent company of the Circle K convenience store chain, will purchase more than 10,000 touchless self-checkout systems, with plans to deploy them in more than 7,000 Circle K and Couche-Tard stores in the U.S., The Mashgin system, branded as “Smart Checkout,” relies on AI-powered technology that can improve customer checkout time up to 400%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

Amazon is continuing to expand the reach of its Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless checkout tech with a particular focus on events-based venues. The Quick Six store will open on June 1, 2023, at Six Flags Great Adventure, and a second location will open later this year at Magic Mountain in Los Angeles. “We airports.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

H&M Group is rolling out a pilot of several new tech-enabled in-store shopping solutions at COS stores in the U.S., including new payment and checkout options, personalized styling facilitated by smart mirrors and upgraded delivery and return options. location, with additional locations getting the upgrades later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2021

GIANT has added frictionless just walk out technology at a grab-and-go convenience store located at its Philadelphia ecommerce fulfillment center. It’s a particularly relevant capability for a location like this, where team members would otherwise need to travel off site to purchase food products.”. It’s that easy.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Amazon Haul has its own search, cart and checkout separate from Amazon’s. The majority of products offered are priced at $10 or less, with some as low as $1. It’s early days for this experience, and we’ll continue to listen to customers as we refine and expand it in the weeks and months to come.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Location-Powered Experiences Drive Results. Leading retailers have addressed these challenges head-on by adopting new technology such as location infrastructure. Leading retailers have addressed these challenges head-on by adopting new technology such as location infrastructure. Offer rapid turnaround for on-premise orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2022

Holiday Oil Company , a convenience store retailer with 67 locations in Utah, has selected the Gilbarco Veeder-Root Passport Express Lane self-checkout system, to help ease its labor challenges and create a frictionless shopping experience. For employees, it helps balance out staffing shortages and maintain store standards.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Grocery TV will now power more than 10,000 screens at Hy-Vees 400+ retail locations across the Midwest, reaching shoppers at key store touch points including the entrance, checkout, service departments, aisles and endcaps. The partnership will go live in February 2025. The partnership will go live in February 2025.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The trolley, dubbed Caper Cart, is a collaboration between Coles and US supermarket technology company Instacart, and it is scheduled to be trialled at Coles Richmond Traders in Melbourne early next year. The Coles Smart Trolley has an interactive digital screen that displays in-store specials and product aisle locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using the Amazon “Just Walk Out” technology, Grubhub Campus has introduced cashierless checkout at convenience stores at Loyola University Maryland. Students, faculty and staff scan a QR code to enter the store, pick their items and leave, with the payment deducted from their student meal plan or other stored payment methods.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Omnichannel retailer solution provider GK has launched scanless checkout through GK Go , part of its CLOUD4RETAIL service suite. Additionally, GK Go includes the option to let shoppers opt in for real-time offers and personalization based on preferences, basket content, shopping history, location in the store and other attributes.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Campus foodservice leader Sodexo will open nearly 100 Food Hive markets on college campuses by 2026, beginning with the approximately 30 locations opening during the 2024-2025 academic year. The modern flow of the store, including self-checkout, will enhance efficiency and convenience for everyone.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Global travel retailer WHSmith has opened its first North American retail location inside the redesigned Terminal B concourse at New York City’s LaGuardia airport. The store is equipped with Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology, offering travelers a checkout-free shopping experience. “As

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Merry Hill has announced that Footasylum, the leading streetwear retailer, has launched its upsized store at the centre, tripling its footprint. Combining its existing unit with the adjacent space, Footasylum has expanded its presence at Merry Hill from 3,000 to 10,000 sq ft.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2025

Initially focused on providing an easy way for athletes (Dicks name for its customers) to learn more about products via an in-store barcode scanning feature, the app has continued to incorporate new features that remove friction from the checkout process, such as like autocomplete address suggestions.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For consumers, grocery shopping has become a multi-location event, with shoppers visiting an average of 5.2 Shoppers can use technology to their advantage and shop at all three stores in whatever way works best for them. One technology solution that enriches customer experience is self-checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Following a 200 -store test that limited customers using self-checkout to a maximum of 10 items, Target has rolled out Express Self-Checkout to its nearly 2,000 stores nationwide. The 2023 pilot showed that the self-checkout experience was twice as fast at stores with the Express model compared to those without. “By

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

For retailers, self-checkout is something of a double-edged sword. There’s no doubt the technology can bring tremendous benefits, such as allowing more customers to pay at the same time, thus reducing wait times without having to staff additional cashier stations. It’s a rigorous, complicated and lengthy process.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

After a successful pilot of stationary self-checkout technology at its recently renovated NYC flagship store, Bed Bath & Beyond will deploy solutions from NCR at select locations nationwide. “As Flagship shoppers also can access “scan and buy” capabilities that allow them to bypass the store’s checkout lines.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

What does a retailer do when it has developed a self-checkout system broadly considered in the industry as the best in the world? Like I expect self checkout to be hell and it was magic.” “It We look at things holistically. To improve the current self-checkout system, we need to keep evolving our RFID platform.”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Discount retailer Aldi may be a novice when it comes to in-store technology in Australia, but it has plans afoot in the UK to launch an advanced system that will replace checkout entirely. They can then proceed through the store to pick up their items and walk out when they are finished, without making a payment at a till.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“We see the value Carrot Tags offer as they help Instacart shoppers to be more independent when fulfilling online orders, allowing our associates to focus on store operations and providing excellent customer service,” said Scott Patton, VP at Aldi in a statement. locations in August 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

They need to keep track of what’s new, what’s unique to their location and what just went on sale. Customer and product information at their fingertips What are some of the functionalities and data that your POS system needs to serve up? This is one situation you want to avoid at all costs. It’s a lot harder than it sounds.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Autonomous convenience store retailer Wundermart is expanding its operations, with plans to open more than 10,000 checkout-free stores in a partnership with contactless checkout company AiFi. You should be capable of easily opening up autonomous shops, and it needs to be cost-effective.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Following the fall 2020 launch of its Amazon One contactless biometric palm reader in two Amazon Go stores, the retailer has rolled out the technology to a total of eight retail locations throughout the Seattle area, according to reporting in TechCrunch and other publications.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2024

British multi-category retailer Marks & Spencer plans to open at least 10 new convenience stores in conjunction with its franchise partners and refresh up to 50 existing c-stores this year as it looks to grow its £1 billion ( $1.3 SSP currently operates 55 of these franchised M&S locations across the UK.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

With advancements like AI-driven personalization and checkout-free shopping, the future of in-store technology is poised to completely revolutionize the way we shop. Contactless and Frictionless Payments Long checkout lines have been a longstanding frustration for shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Amazon is bringing its Amazon Go convenience store format to the suburbs with the launch of a location in Mill Creek, Wash. The retailer also is planning an Amazon Go location in the Los Angeles metro area. in the coming months, according to Business Insider , MarketWatch and other media outlets.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2021

Consumers are increasingly drawn to convent checkout experiences, from mobile POS and self-checkout to grab-and-go tech, and now even autonomous stores. The fully autonomous NanoStore is customizable and can be operated in any location with Verizon 5G coverage. Autonomous Retail Becoming a Global Phenomenon. In the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Discount ecommerce app Wish has teamed up with parcel pickup and drop-off network Pudo to offer customers click-and-collect options at more than 1,200 locations across the U.S. Additionally, Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish, with revenues down 42% YoY to $78 million. and Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Cards have become by far the most popular payment method, with contactless now accounting for most purchases made at retail stores. While dedicated lines deliver higher reliability, they come at a higher a cost. James Stark is Head of Direct Sales UK – Enterprise, Merchant Services at Worldline.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2025

For more insights on how to prevent at least some returns from occurring in the first place, as well as strategies for mitigating the negative impact of the returns that do happen, check out the full report, Rethinking Returns: How to Tackle the Inevitable. Charges for returns should be on an exception basis only.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2022

Walmart has introduced a new signature experience at its incubator location in Springdale, Ark. Walmart announced the store redesign effort in early 2021, and nearly 1,000 locations have been updated in accordance with the first phase. called “Time Well Spent.”

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Landsec has today announced the official opening of international fashion retailer, ZARA, at One New Change, the premier retail and leisure destination in the City of London. This function also enables customers to book fitting rooms and locate items easily in store.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

More than nine locations at NFL venues, including Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium and Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn., We see a big opportunity to maximize underused space in numerous locations, from narrow concourses in venues and airports to high-traffic walkways on college campuses.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

At the time of sale for any product, the built-in integration with our store platform uses the RFID system to tell us what’s in the inventory so it knows it’s not lost or missing,” said Sandeep Baghel, VP of Information Systems at Perry Ellis in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. It’s a productivity gain.”

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