Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With a quick click on a smartphone, these customers have accessed hidden content, exclusive deals and lightning-fast checkouts. Three standout examples demonstrate the versatility and potential of this technology: Ikea tackles the challenge of checking out large furniture items with a QR-based mobile checkout option. The result?

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

Discount variety chain Dollar General is looking to self-checkout as a way to “leverage and reinforce our position as a low-cost operator,” COO Jeff Owen told analysts on the company’s Q1 earnings call on May 26, 2022. 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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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

JUNE 3, 2024

What a difference two years make: Dollar General was enthusiastic enough about self-checkout in June 2022 that it announced trialing 100% self-checkout at 200 stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2022

Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has settled and agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against checkout solution provider Bolt. Both companies agreed to continue their partnership, which currently powers one-click checkout for Forever 21 and Lucky Brand , with the possibility of expanding the technology to more ABG brands in the coming months.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

including new payment and checkout options, personalized styling facilitated by smart mirrors and upgraded delivery and return options. Throughout 2022 we will test a new frictionless and personalized shopping experience — from the fitting room to checkout,” said Alan Boehme, CTO at H&M Group in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The convenience store experience just got more convenient at Chartw ells , a division of Compass Group that operates thousands of stores on college and corporate campuses. The retailer recently debuted its first store to be retrofitted with checkout-free technology at the University of Houston campus.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

This is the first part of our two-part series, “ From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we go beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. Plus, despite all the vocal naysayers, many consumers actually like the technology.

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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 NCR has been an incredible partner along this journey and its self-checkout solution brings an important capability to our stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

The modern flow of the store, including self-checkout, will enhance efficiency and convenience for everyone. I cant wait for our students to experience this fantastic one-stop-shop addition to our campus when we open in the spring of 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS) and generators are valuable for boosting resilience, especially if trading in locations that experience regular electricity power-cuts. A multi layered, end-to-end approach is essential. This is why more attention and investment in boosting resilience levels are required.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

Mashgin , a self-checkout solution powered by AI and computer vision, has raised $62.5 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. million in Series B funding at a $1.5

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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. We will not have to relocate merchandise, replace shelves or build an entirely new store to implement autonomous checkout.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2017, Polywood had a great product sustainability story (its outdoor furniture is made from 100% recycled plastic and comes with a 20-year guarantee) and a solid launching pad for direct-to-consumer sales (a 27 -year history of selling through big box, home improvement and specialty patio stores). said Narang.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

From online stores to point-of-sale systems, ensuring smooth customer experiences relies on robust testing of software systems. By not using an API, retailers can expect to experience lost revenues, poor customer experiences, reputational damage and more.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Respondents to the store design survey already have rethought and redesigned areas where there are clear monetization opportunities: product display areas ( 70% ), fixtures ( 62% ) and the point of sale ( 54% ).

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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

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For this reason, there have been major investments in exciting retail activations from some of the biggest grocers in the world, with a particular focus on bringing the online and in-store shopping experiences together in one seamless checkout.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Whether responding to a transactional survey, sharing an experience in a group chat (or Zoom), leaving a public Google review, or streaming a live unboxing of your product on TikTok – customers are advocating for or detracting from your brand in new and countless ways. Customer journey disruption is here to stay.

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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 5, 2024

Each device can perform core transactional functions — such as the ability to accept card and cash payments and scan products for efficient checkouts — offline. Done right, the offline POS experience should be so smooth that associates may not even know when their device is offline.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The solution provider offers a range of technologies in the Hitachi Automated Shop that aim to combine frictionless purchasing, advanced tracking technology and intelligent analytics to help both shoppers and retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

From contactless payment to fully automated checkout, innovations showed promise for streamlining and improving the customer experience. The “frictionless” label applies to a number of different technologies; many of them associated with the checkout process. Improving Customer Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning retailers from offering any type of plastic bag to customers at the point of sale. The new law, scheduled to take effect Jan. This straightforward approach is easy to follow and will help dramatically reduce plastic bag pollution.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Stripe will be the first payment platform to offer the service to business customers, including the Shopify Point of Sale app this spring. With Tap to Pay on iPhone, millions of businesses using Stripe can enhance their in-person commerce experience by offering their customers a fast and secure checkout.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2024

The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience. Last year, it implemented several self-checkout stations for its market concessions.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

This month Retail TouchPoints has been exploring the state of autonomous checkout experiences in our series From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out. But there is a more middle-of-the-road area of self-checkout that is currently growing by leaps and bounds — smart carts. Those grapes end up being $17 ?!

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In another first, customers access the checkout solution via the Sainsbury SmartShop app rather than the Amazon app, meaning they can use an interface they already are familiar with. 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

APRIL 7, 2025

Next, the authentication request must be embedded properly into the checkout process. This reduces cost and accelerates checkout. The first version of 3DS in Europe appeared very crude, so many consumers were suspicious about being lured into a fraud scheme through pop-up windows. While 3DS is not strictly required in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

The basic service that a point-of-sale (POS) device provides checking out customers is essential to any retailers functioning. Another example: Im an unabashed fan of the Scan & Go feature at Sams Club , which allows me to scan all the stuff in my basket and completely bypass the regular checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

Say Farewell to Cart Abandonment, Welcome Loyal Customers. Customers that have a positive point-of-sale financing experience are more likely to repeat purchases from that retail brand if the BNPL option is white-labeled for the retailer. In this sense, payments have earned their spotlight. The best part?

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Wiser

DECEMBER 10, 2019

However, there are some things about certain brick-and-mortar stores that are not fun: long lines and poor checkout experiences. Why the Checkout Experience Matters. For brick-and-mortar retailers, an excellent checkout process is a must-have. The alternative is shoppers who dread the checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Optimizing Customer Journeys Contactless technologies such as RFID and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications can dramatically improve inventory accuracy, a key element of optimizing customer journeys: “Most retailers are losing as many as 8.2

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Here are four ways retailers can level up their store experience to boost customer engagement, brand affinity, and brand loyalty: Integrate Technology to Enhance the Customer Experience Successful retailers seamlessly blend technology into their physical spaces while keeping a personalized, human feel.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

Schnuck Markets has extended its partnership with Instacart to introduce Caper Carts, which use AI and computer vision to automatically identify items shoppers put into them, allowing shoppers to then skip the line and check out using the cart technology. The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St.

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