Inside Retail

APRIL 9, 2025

From advanced point-of-sale capabilities to omnichannel commerce and self-service solutions, Flooids technology empowers retailers to meet customer demands with speed and efficiency. So we are seeing a win for our customers and our customers customers when you then apply that in the self-checkout world.

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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 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

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Convenience store retailer Royal Farms will implement NCR Corporation ’s self-checkout solutions in all of its more than 250 locations. Self-checkout has become an important option for today’s touch-conscious shoppers, and its adoption is only expected to increase. million units by 2025.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The retailer recently debuted its first store to be retrofitted with checkout-free technology at the University of Houston campus. Cashierless solution providers want to make it easier for retailers to embrace checkout-free stores by providing with the ability to retrofit existing locations versus building from scratch.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Conversely, intuitive and streamlined experiences especially at checkout help grocers send the signal that they recognize shoppers time is valuable. One technology solution that enriches customer experience is self-checkout. Clunky, inefficient setups can make customers feel like theyre wasting their time.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Walmart will offer buy now, pay later (BNPL) options at self-checkout kiosks in more than 4,500 U.S. Walmart is making a big move in that direction with the integration of BNPL financing at its self-checkout kiosks, allowing customers to pay over time for everything from electronics and apparel to toys and more.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sensormatic Solutions and Zliide have entered a collaboration aimed at enabling self-checkout experiences that eliminate register queues and streamline the shopper experience. The combined solutions will work to reduce shrink while making self-checkout simpler for customers.

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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. The just walk out technology has the capability to accept card or cash payments at a payment tower, on a consumer’s mobile phone and at a staffed 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

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 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

JULY 1, 2024

Now, through Birdzi’s integration with ECRS’s POS software, shopper and basket information are immediately relayed from ECRS to Birdzi, allowing shoppers to easily redeem their personalized discounts and promotional offers at checkout.

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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

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. Checkout-free stores powered by Just Walk Out technology provide fast, seamless and contactless transactions, which we think will resonate really well in this setting.”

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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

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 Make it Happen .

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

For retailers, self-checkout is something of a double-edged sword. Moreover, customers seem very receptive to self-checkout, with 73% noting that it feels much faster than a traditional cashier. Additionally, 85% of Gen Z consumers use self-checkout when available, driven largely by the convenience factor.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The grocery company also operates a 150 -square-foot checkout-free store outside the Albert Heijn convenience store’s support office in the Netherlands. Ahold Delhaize first piloted the lunchbox technology at its Quincy, Mass., office in 2019 for a cafeteria that serves 1,000 workers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This latest addition to Shopify’s offerings relies on the company’s point-of-sale software, which is designed to allow retailers to sell online and offline. Merchants can gain a complete understanding of the customer journey to support on-the-spot personalized experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2020

Shekel , an AI-powered advanced weighing solution provider, has introduced Fast Track, a touchless machine learning-based cloudless self-checkout solution for supermarkets. Fast Track aims to eliminate the need for consumers to enter product codes via touchscreens by automatically recognizing produce, bakery and specialty items.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

More Points of Attack: The Spread of IoT The network is more integrated than ever before. IoT is now part of the shopping experience, and retailers use it for things like automated checkout, inventory and data management and supply chain optimization. Data and applications are the foundation of business services.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Nspire , a merchandising solutions provider, offers tools that can help retailers implement contactless checkout. Nspire provides shop fittings made to enable the placement of touchless checkout systems anywhere in the store.

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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

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

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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Retail Gazette

MAY 1, 2025

The deal will see Sainsburys roll out the digital commerce solutions firm’s checkout technology, point of sale solutions and self-checkout systems to 22,500 checkouts. In January, John Lewis also became the first UK retailer to implement AI-powered age checks for online knife sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2025

Retail businesses are no longer self-enclosed entities where everything revolves around a checkout and some inventory management software. A clear example of this occurred when Morrisons , a major UK supermarket chain, suffered a severe IT outage that left customers stranded at checkouts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Each sales channel (till, self-checkout, queue-busting, customer service desk) can be designed to use different communication methods and processing paths, ensuring that a single failure wont disable all in-store payment options.

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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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