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

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. So, What’s it Like to Actually Shop with a Smart Cart?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

1WorldSync’s 2024 Consumer Product Content Benchmark report revealed that 64% of shoppers have scanned a QR code on a product while shopping in-store. With a quick click on a smartphone, these customers have accessed hidden content, exclusive deals and lightning-fast checkouts. The result?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. Retailers using cashier-based systems also are focusing on updating hardware and software to improve the checkout experience.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Once an individual downloads the app, they can simply scan in, shop and walk out. The grocery company also operates a 150 -square-foot checkout-free store outside the Albert Heijn convenience store’s support office in the Netherlands. It’s that easy. Ahold Delhaize first piloted the lunchbox technology at its Quincy, Mass.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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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. grocery sales were in physical stores. Checkout-Free Stores .

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Walmart has unveiled a reimagined store design, with a new look and feel that focuses on a digitally enabled shopping experience. 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.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When it comes to marketing and sales, digital may be the trend but we still work, live and shop in a three-dimensional, physical world. Whether you realise it or not, you’ve probably been influenced by point of sale displays. Can you get your POS display next to the checkout?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 21, 2021

Co-op UK, Britain’s fifth biggest food retailer, is using technology to drive a better shopping experience for its customers in bricks-and-mortar retail. Self-service] continues to be our predominant kind of point-of-sale. “[Self-service] continues to be our predominant kind of point-of-sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Inside H&M ’s new store in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood, the fast fashion retailer has nested a shop-in-shop featuring curated secondhand pieces — the brand’s first resale location in North America. To celebrate the debut, beginning Feb.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

On Sunday I did my weekly shopping at the store to find out if Amazon Fresh might be able to fill the hole left by Fairway, literally and figuratively. Not to mention that the delis prepared food section offered very little to entice someone to take a break from shopping and sit down to eat. billion acquisition of Whole Foods.

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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

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 14, 2022

Bolt raised $355 million in its Series E funding round, bringing the checkout and shopper network solution provider’s funding total to nearly $1 billion. Lead investors include funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with participation from Schonfeld, Invus Opportunities, H.I.G. Growth and CE Innovation Capital.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Hitachi’s automated shop technology uses lidar (light detection and ranging) sensors instead of relying on cameras and video. Hitachi Vantara has launched the Grab-N-Walk Out solution, which is designed to help customers take want they want, pay and leave with minimal friction.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The BuyBuy Baby website will relaunch later this month and 11 brick-and-mortar stores will then reopen in November featuring “an elevated shopping experience” and revamped registry, according to a company representative.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The in-store shopping experience has a number of benefits for consumers. However, there are some things about certain brick-and-mortar stores that are not fun: long lines and poor checkout experiences. However, there are some things about certain brick-and-mortar stores that are not fun: long lines and poor checkout experiences.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In-store shopping has rebounded post-pandemic. But while a retreat from online sales was predicted, the speed and scale of shoppers returning to bricks-and-mortar stores was less anticipated. However, post-pandemic physical shopping is a different beast to the olden days.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Sephora operates with a customer-first mindset, and our goal is to provide an elevated shopping experience in all of the ways that our beauty community chooses to shop with us,” said Stefan Jensen, VP, Treasurer at Sephora in a statement. Associates will need to install the mobile Point of Sale App on their iPhones to use it.

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

The idea eliminates checkout lines. Let’s consider first the effects of Just Walk Out on retail environments: No checkouts equals 8-12% floor space saved. No checkouts affords a more motivated customer-facing team. Developers and shopping centers can completely rethink their footprints, optimizing cost and potential worth, too.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

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. As many as 94% of consumers that shop online state that they would use BNPL, if offered, at the retailer’s brick-and-mortar store. Bottom Line.

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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. Now, they have the added appeal of more hygienic shopping as well. The “frictionless” label applies to a number of different technologies; many of them associated with the checkout process.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

supermarket with cashier-free checkout technology powered by computer vision. It’s exciting to see a checkout-free capability live in one of our stores,” said Eric Traxler, VP of IT at Aldi in a statement. Aldi has retrofitted its Aurora, Ill.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Unified commerce, on the other hand, connects all data-driven aspects of retail, from the back-end systems to customer interactions, to help create a continuous shopping experience. Example: When a customer shops at IKEA in-store, they can have the purchase delivered to their homes at a pre-scheduled date and time. .

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The holiday shopping season appears to start earlier each year, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals extending for weeks and retailers constantly competing for consumers attention. Additionally, the checkout process must remain consistent whether consumers are shopping in-store, online or using the retailers app.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2024

A recent study of more than 4,700 consumers from Bread Financial indicates payment choices — including retail store credit cards, bank branded credit cards and buy now, pay later (BNPL) — at checkout have become a major factor in pleasing shoppers and closing a sale. Long gone are the days where retailers can only say, “Cash or card?”;

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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 Minded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Did you know that point of sale systems date back to 1879 when the first one was invented by American shopkeeper James Ritty. From self-service checkouts at stores to curb-side pickup, to contact-less payments, retailers had to find ways to let customers start (and finish) their shopping journeys however they wanted.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2022

With the introduction of our Red By Dufry loyalty program, we are giving travelers yet another reason to shop our stores while finding new opportunities to deliver our Traveler’s Best Friend experience, no matter where they travel.”. The retailer announced its plans to deploy Amazon ’s Just Walk Out technology in select stores in early 2021.

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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

APRIL 30, 2024

Through AI and other technologies, customers in grocery stores, clothing outlets and other convenience-style shops no longer need to wait in line to check out. Truist Park in Atlanta is another stadium recognizing the impact of fast concessions and the huge success of self-checkout in grocery and retail stores worldwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

We aim to make customers feel like each shopping experience was custom-made for them, and we’re excited to take another big step forward with the rollout of this pilot of Instacart’s Caper Carts.”

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