Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For those in Melbourne, stepping into the LaManna supermarket, in the northern suburb of Essendon Fields, is like taking the world’s shortest flight to Italy. To the LaManna customer, a trip to the supermarket is not an errand but an indulgence. LaManna’s defiance of the industry status quo means it is only just hitting its stride.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The solution provider will use the funding to scale deployment of autonomous urban supermarkets across Europe and the U.S., Trigo’s solution is designed to help supermarkets create a “digital twin” of the store using feeds from ceiling-mounted cameras and shelf sensors.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Last month Booths axed its self-service checkouts in all but two of its 28 stores, claiming the move was in response to customer demand. The supermarket insisted the change helped it keep its “warm northern welcome” and that having manned tills was better for shoppers. Why did Booths remove its self-service checkouts?

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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. Checkout-free technology is still in its infancy in Australia. Other retailers have followed suit with checkout-free tech.

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

The idea eliminates checkout lines. Their apps open, supermarket executives also enquire: “But who’ll own the data …?”. 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.

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Retail Dive

JULY 8, 2024

is the world’s largest self-checkout market, driven in part by supermarket chains and c-stores, even as some retailers pull back on the tech.

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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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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Aldi is trialling its first checkout-free store to allow customers to shop at the supermarket and exit without the need to pay at a till. The discount supermarket chain said the store is in London but declined to give further details of the location of the trial site.

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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. Coles has launched an all-in-one AI-powered Smart Trolley trial designed to enhance in-store shopping experiences through technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2021

German grocery chain tegut… has piloted a fully automated mini-supermarket concept in Fulda, Germany, with plans to open another three locations in 2021 and, eventually, hundreds of the digital self-service stores across the country. The ground at the location does not have to be sealed for the wooden structure.

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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 Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The chain’s value offer and rapidly expanding store network in recent years saw it overtake Morrisons to become the UK’s fourth largest supermarket in 2022. H owever, in April it was reported that it was among the supermarkets resorting to selling shops to bring down its significant debts. Which grocer offers better value?

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365 Retail

JANUARY 18, 2022

Aldi has opened its first checkout-free store, where shoppers will be able to pick up products and leave without queuing to pay. The discount supermarket’s new site in Greenwich, south-east London, will also allow customers to buy alcohol, using facial age estimation technology to check whether they appear to be over the age of 25.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Last month, global supermarket brand Aldi opened its first checkout-free supermarket to the public, following an in-house trial, allowing customers in Greenwich, London, to walk in, pick up their groceries, and walk out without going to a till. Aldi also has staff on hand to verify a customer’s age physically if need be.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Digital shelf, dark store and a fresh food playground – is this the future of supermarkets? The consulting company has developed a new supermarket concept, in partnership with design agency Le Projet Hope, that blends online with offline and old shopping habits with new processes. . Accenture thinks so. Image: Supplied.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2021

Videos and images of bare toilet paper shelves have once again surfaced online as consumers fall into old habits, forcing supermarkets to bring back purchase limits on high demand items. Varying approach from supermarkets . In the last week alone, 17 Woolworths supermarkets have been listed as Covid-19 exposure sites.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Some UK supermarkets are “blatantly disregarding” rules aimed at tackling childhood obesity by placing restrictions on where products high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) can be placed. This shows that regulation can help make the healthy choice the easy choice for everyone,” she said. “It

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tesco is trialing scan-free self-checkouts at one of its west London stores in a bid to provide a more “seamless and convenient” shopping experience. Shoppers at the supermarket’s Fulham Reach Express GetGo store can now proceed to the checkout where it will “magically present them with a list of products they have picked up”.

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I Vend

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

 As the holiday season approaches, supermarkets start to gear up for their busiest time of the year. We all like to eat, drink and be merry, and that means big business for supermarkets and grocery stores. iVend’s Retail Management Solution iVend helps supermarkets run efficiently at any time of year.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Tesco is launching its first checkout-free high street store where shoppers can pick up their groceries and leave without the need for a till. It is the latest retail giant to open a store where checkouts are replaced by high-tech cameras designed to track the items shoppers place in their baskets.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Powered by Trigo, the store is based on a hybrid model, where customers can either choose to go through a conventional checkout process, or have a frictionless experience using the latest camera and sensor technology. If they opt for the autonomous checkout, customers need to use the Rewe app to register at the entrance to the store.

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VMS

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Systems to erase checkout lines are on the grow, as exemplified by these three new installations: • A Pick & Go store in Munich is Germany’s first fully autonomous, cashier-less supermarket. The new supermarket allows customers to walk in, select their items off the shelves and leave without having to pay at checkout.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The study flags that, despite the elevation of supermarket brands to become some of the most trusted entities in Australia, there is also a growth in distrust, and that’s a problem. But in more recent months, beef prices have been dropping at the farm gate by 60 per cent or more, while supermarket prices stayed high.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

Of course, physical retail has had to undergo a few changes since the first wave of Covid, particularly at entry, payment and checkout. The other side of the checkout experience is assisted service, when the cashier helps and engages with the customer. “In Offering choices: Self-service vs assisted service, cash vs non-cash payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2024

The retailer joins several supermarket retailers that have stopped accepting checks, including Aldi , Whole Foods Market and Lidl. Citing “extremely low volumes” of customers using personal checks, Target will stop accepting checks for in-store payments on July 15, 2024, as reported in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and confirmed by Target.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For the first episode, we spoke to industry expert and Swinburne University professor Jason Pallant about the rise of checkout-free stores, what they can offer the sector, and the barriers they need to overcome to succeed. Checkout-free stores also open up the potential for new and innovative ways of designing stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St. 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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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. by the end of 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

Albertsons Companies will launch cart-based smart checkout technology later this year at select supermarkets throughout the country, in partnership with Veeve Smart Carts. In October 2021, online grocery platform Instacart moved deeper into supermarket technology with the acquisition of Caper. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Three more supermarket chains will connect their electronic shelf label (ESL) hardware to the Carrot Tags pick-to-light functionality from Instacart , making it easier for Instacart pickers — and eventually for consumers themselves — to find the products on their shopping list. locations in August 2024.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The winter World Cup has added a new level of uncertainty to the Christmas trading outlook of Britain’s supermarkets: How do you persuade cash-strapped shoppers to buy yule logs and luxury biscuits at the same time as beer and pizza? But with household budgets squeezed, supermarket chains are bracing for less of a sales bonanza.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

M&S chairman Archie Norman has claimed faulty self-checkouts are behind shoplifting “creeping in” among the middle classes. The supermarket’s recent data showed of the almost 3,000 occasions this year where specialist teams detained serious offenders, police didn’t show-up to incidents 76% of the time.

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V Count

JULY 18, 2024

Whether it’s at the coffee shop for your morning fix or at the supermarket checkout after a long day, standing in a queue can feel like an eternity. Imagine you’re at the supermarket, ready to dash home with your groceries, but instead, you’re stuck behind a seemingly endless line of carts. Frustrating, right?

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 25, 2023

Morrisons has followed Sainsbury’s by introducing barriers to exit its self-checkout area. The feature, which makes customers scan their receipts before they can leave the store, has been brought into several supermarkets as an additional security measure, amid rising levels of shoplifting across the retail sector.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 3, 2023

Shoppers who prefer to use self-service checkouts may have noticed some changes of late. The homewares giant tells Retail Gazette it has an optional checkout method called scan and pack, which had been around for about 18 months, where shoppers can use the Ikea app to scan products while they shopped.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Digital shelf, dark store and a fresh food playground – is this the future of supermarkets? The consulting company has developed a new supermarket concept, in partnership with design agency Le Projet Hope, that blends online with offline and old shopping habits with new processes. . Accenture thinks so. Image: Supplied.

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