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. The technology uses AI-powered computer vision and deep-learning techniques, including generative AI, to determine who took what in a retail environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

Mashgin , a self-checkout solution powered by AI and computer vision, has raised $62.5 million in Series B funding at a $1.5 The Mashgin solution speeds checkout by reading multiple items simultaneously, although it requires shoppers to set their purchases down on the countertop devices’ base to operate.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Savings are automatically applied at checkout when shoppers scan their loyalty card or enter their phone number. A QR code also is available for those preferring a touchless experience. Customers will receive a printout of the digital coupons that are loaded to their loyalty card for reference as they shop.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Chances are you noticed some changes at the checkout line. There were probably more self-checkout choices and fewer cashiers. The Growth of Self-Checkout . Self-checkouts have been prevalent in retail stores across America since the early 2000s. Checkout-Free Stores . Security cameras and AI.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We’re seeing vision AI support across all parts of the retail business, including back of house, in-store advertising and media, store checkout and curbside pickup. They need the ability to install and have optimally running tech solutions that require minimal maintenance, which deploying at the edge can support.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

This innovative c-store will not only provide our students with a diverse selection of hot and cold food options but also meet their personal and grocery needs, said Rose Wilson, District Manager, Sodexo at Northern Arizona University in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Technologies such as frictionless checkout systems or ‘Just Walk Out technology’ take a different approach. This method allows for the automatic billing of items taken off shelves without a traditional checkout process.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless technology has found a welcoming home in sports stadiums, a trend that will continue this fall, with a total of 14 new stores joining those already in place at Lumen Field in Seattle and Commanders Field outside Washington, D.C., as well as Baltimore’s first JWO store at M&T Bank Stadium.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Target is rolling out multiple initiatives aimed at improving in-store safety during the holiday season, including contactless self-checkout, skip-the-line technology and doubling the number of contactless pickup parking spots. They can then check out with an associate or at self-checkout as they normally would.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Inventory needs to be carefully sorted between the front and backroom, and each store needs to have a clear view of inventory to ensure customers aren’t disappointed by an out-of-stock. “At Additionally, the use of RFID will help Perry Ellis better get a more granular understanding of what products are selling in what stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Customer and product information at their fingertips What are some of the functionalities and data that your POS system needs to serve up? The POS should provide associates with real-time access to each customer’s history with the retailer, including all in-store and online purchases as well as active orders and loyalty status information.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It provides a detailed view of the customers shopping process, helping retailers understand how customers interact with their brand at every stage. Cinnabon places its stores near mall entrances or busy areas, relying on the smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls to draw people in.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sainsbury’s will upgrade 22,500 checkouts across its supermarkets, convenience stores and fuel stations with cloud-based POS and analytics solutions from NCR Voyix. NCR Voyix has grown alongside Sainsbury’s for two decades, unlocking new capabilities and optimizing product management, sales forecasting and store efficiencies.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

Convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard has announced that is hiring for more than 25,000 positions at its more than 14,100 Circle K and Couche-Tard stores and support centers across North America, Europe and Asia. Canada and Europe over the next three years.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

supermarket with cashier-free checkout technology powered by computer vision. ALDIgo, using technology from Grabango , tracks which items shoppers put in their carts; customers can then pay with a credit or debit card or the Grabango app at cashierless pay stations or they can use traditional manned lanes.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Instacart has made its initial public offering (IPO), pricing its stock at $30 per share and valuing the grocery delivery and technology company at approximately $10 billion. The IPO valuation represents a significant decline from early 2021, at the height of the COVID pandemic, when Instacart raised funding at a $39 billion valuation.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Worcester R e d Sox (the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox) has teamed up with Standard AI to open an autonomous fan store at the team’s newly constructed stadium, Polar Park. Fans enter the store, grab the items they want and then, using the Standard AI checkout app, simply tap their phone to walk out.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St. Louis Schnucks stores this fall, with a broader rollout planned for later this year. Select Caper Carts will include a bottom rack for heavy and bulky items.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The store combines a manned checkout with the use of computer vision as part of checkout-free shopping powered by AiFi Solutions. Stocking 2,000 SKUs ranging from fresh meats to snacks, this store represents the largest deployment to date of the AiFi Autonomous Store Platform OASIS.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Vivek Malik, Senior Vice President of Store Systems. Zippin , a provider of checkout-free technologies for brick-and-mortar retail, has hired veteran retail executive Vivek Malik, formerly Senior Director of Infrastructure and Store IT at 7-Eleven , as its SVP of Store Systems. . Malik brings nearly 20.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2024

This is the second part of our two-part series, “From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we went beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. So let’s take a look at where fully autonomous retail solutions are working, and where they aren’t.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. Simplifying Checkout In this case, “simplifying checkout” means embracing “self-checkout.” of all in-store sales and the GDP of Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2023

Retailers often think about the checkout process as if it’s an isolated obstacle separate from the rest of the shopper journey, particularly on mobile devices. Even so, retailers can benefit when they view checkout challenges in the context of shoppers’ full range of expectations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s no secret that retailers and brands have become obsessed with driving conversion in their quest to recover the more than half of shoppers who abandon checkout before completing their purchase. Maximizing that combination of factors can be accomplished at checkout, as long as it’s not stripped of all its goodness.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This brings the solution provider’s total funding above $1 billion , which will enable Standard to execute at scale its plans to outfit more than 50,000 checkout-free stores in the next five years. and Toronto, Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

That sense of unease is to be expected from a cohort shaped by both the 2008-2009 Great Recession and the COVID pandemic, and it’s had a big impact on their shopping choices: nearly half ( 48% ) say they shop the most often at discount/off-price retailers, and 25% frequently patronize dollar stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Whether its a high-profile fashion activation during an annual event like New York Fashion Week or a seasonal event, brands should structure their operations to: Build hype with limited product volume, increasing demand. Create a seamless purchasing experience, whether through mobile checkout, online reservations or exclusive memberships.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

At the entrance, clean, colorful iconography and a store directory welcome customers and encourage them to download and use the Walmart app while they shop. Select locations will also have Scan & Go to help customers manage their checkout directly.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the first usage of Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology by a non-Amazon international retailer, Sainsbury’s has deployed the cashierless solution in its Holborn Circus convenience store. Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Preparing Internal Operations for Smart Stores The importance of operational preparedness is especially true for grocers implementing emerging technologies such as autonomous checkout, also referred to as seamless checkout. It is similar to upgrading your smartphone. Expect it to be a learning curve.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Thirteen years after Woolworths introduced self-service checkouts to Australian supermarket shoppers, discount grocer Aldi has bowed to the demand for quick and convenient self-serve transactions at its stores. I suspect they’ll progress that across their fleet of stores in the coming years,” Mortimer said.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

QuickChek , a convenience store operator with 160 locations in New Jersey and New York, has launched the QuickChek Rewards loyalty program. At checkout, QuickChek Rewards members can scan the barcode within the app to earn perks on food and beverages. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Walmart will test combining store/fulfillment center locations at four existing stores, using them as test beds for new technology, digital tools and physical enhancements. The stores will focus on implementing new tools that can help speed up both customer service and order fulfillment. in a statement. in a statement.

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