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The Rise of Micro Markets in Airports

Retail TouchPoints

This, combined with workforce shortages, has caused airports to move more toward automation, with self-service check-in kiosks, baggage drops and mini stores. According to SITA, by 2024 88% of airports are expected to be equipped with check-in kiosks and 59% will have automated border control.

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7 Ways Big-Box Retailers Can (Painlessly) Move into Wireless Retail

Retail TouchPoints

This convergence has led many big-box retailers, major grocery stores and other well-known retailers — think Walmart, Costco, Staples, Loblaws and so on — to embrace the same strategy: implementing wireless outlets and kiosks inside their primary stores. Keeping inventory management separate. Managing store-within-a-store staff.

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Dollar General to Trial 100% Self-Checkout Stores at 200 Locations

Retail TouchPoints

Dollar General already has self-checkout kiosks in 8,000 of its 18,000 stores and plans to increase that number to 11,000 by the end of this year. When combined with our data-driven inventory management, we believe these efforts will reduce store workload and drive greater efficiencies for our retail associates and leaders.”.

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Circle K Will Retrofit Stores To Pilot Autonomous Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

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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Essential Shop Kiosk Maintenance Tips

CJ Retail Solutions

In the realm of maintaining kiosks, regular cleaning and sanitizing stand as fundamental practices that ensure both functionality and hygiene. Kiosks, often frequented by numerous users throughout the day, can quickly accumulate dirt, grime, and germs.

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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. Self-checkout kiosks are ubiquitous today, but they add to the security challenges retailers face.

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In-store shopping is far from dead – but the phygital world beckons retailers

Inside Retail

Lightspeed is a single platform for point-of-sale, payment processing, inventory management and reporting which also includes tools for e-commerce and marketing. Technologies like mobile apps, QR codes, and interactive kiosks can help bridge the gap between online research and in-store purchases, says Quinn.

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