Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., As such, the store itself features a “completely reimagined” layout and inventory management system developed to enable “accurate and affordable grocery pickup in minutes.” fueled by $10.1

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Walmarts use of robots: Walmart has deployed robots in many of its stores for tasks like scanning shelves for inventory management, cleaning floors, and sorting deliveries in backrooms. RPA can handle tasks like order processing, inventory management, and data entry, reducing the workload on human staff and minimising errors.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Tally robots from Simbe will roam the aisles of five Price Chopper/Market 32 and five Tops Friendly Markets stores through January 2025, when Northeast Grocery will evaluate the pilot results to determine next steps that could include expanding the robots’ deployment to other supermarkets.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2024

Brick-and-mortar supermarkets remain hugely important, but retailers need to consider and accommodate changing consumer expectations. It’s clear that supermarkets are in an increasingly hybrid business. Tomorrow’s supermarkets: mobile, seamless, connected Success for supermarkets lies in building a connected ecosystem of services.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

Take for example Stop & Shop, a popular supermarket chain in the Eastern U.S. Hall of Fame: Top Grocers Tapping into Omnichannel Retail Media In the past year or so, theres been some really interesting activations from grocers across the globe. boasting 365 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2023

Other companies implementing similar technology include: Sam’s Club , which rolled out automated floor-scrubbing and shelf-scanning robots to its stores over the course of 2022 through a partnership with Brain Corp and Tennant Company; Kum & Go , which is in the process of introducing ICE Cobotics’ Cobi 18 floor-cleaning robotics across its locations, (..)

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Deliveroo has partnered with Singaporean supermarket chain Sheng Siong, bringing more than 5000 grocery essentials, including fresh produce, pantry essentials and household goods, onto the platform. This feedback loop enables agile inventory management, allowing Sheng Siong to quickly adjust and ensure they stock the most popular items.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2022

The issue is perhaps most evident at the nation’s biggest supermarkets, where shelves of fresh produce are once again bare, not because of panic-buying customers, but because of the high numbers of people in the supply chain in isolation. Of those surveyed, 76 per cent said they currently have staff in isolation due to Covid-19 exposure.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2021

For example, when supermarkets learn from AI that frozen snacks sell best on Fridays, they can stock those items accordingly in their warehouses. Energy consumption, inventory management, and customer experience are tightly interwoven in retail operations. Recently, Walmart reported an earnings increase of 2.8 Retail reinvented.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2020

After years of shaking up every vertical from print media to automotive sales and financial services, digital transformation is finally becoming an imperative on supermarket and retail shelves. Alternatively, running power cords to every shelf in the supermarket is no good either. For one, it’s expensive.

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I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

Beyond POS: Enhancing Customer Experience and Efficiency True retail management software extends beyond pure POS – it includes functionality that will help you to enhance customer experiences and operational efficiency. The three most important additional features to consider loyalty, promotions and inventory management.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

Inventory management systems aren’t aligned with the fluidity of digital demand, resulting in product shortages, embarrassing substitution fails and needlessly high fulfillment costs. Inventory management and fulfillment will evolve with technology and store redesigns.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The barcode was initially developed to improve the checkout experience and inventory management in the grocery sector and it is now used in almost every industry and sector. From the supermarket checkout to the hospital ward and beyond, the barcode is an unsung hero of modern life that we should all be grateful for.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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365 Retail

JANUARY 31, 2025

Reducing Waste Through Accurate Inventory Management Real-Time Shelf Monitoring Inventory management inefficiencies account for a large share of product waste. For example, a leading European supermarket chain reduced food waste by 25% after implementing expiry tracking through image recognition.

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V Count

JULY 24, 2024

In the retail and supermarket industry, effective people counting systems play a crucial role in understanding customer behavior, optimizing operations, and driving business success. Two key features that enhance the capabilities of these systems are queue management and staff exclusion.

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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

JUNE 20, 2024

On the inventory management side, smart shelves are to be introduced, allowing shops to track which items need to be replaced. Meanwhile, gamification has been introduced in the banking sector to improve education about products and knowledge of the industry. The next few years will no doubt bring more change.

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I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

You need inventory management, a loyalty program, and the ability to send out promotions and gift cards, for example. iVend provides retail management software, not just POS. More than POS Many POS providers are just that they only provide POS. Many of them do it very well.

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V Count

MARCH 20, 2023

Your average shopper nowadays is more educated than ever —in the sense that they know what they need and want— meaning supermarkets and grocery shops must learn to adapt and leverage new technologies to help them understand what customers want and meet the modern shoppers’ demands.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are also other supply chain benefits for businesses including improved inventory management, recall readiness, sustainability, ethical sourcing and product authentication. Major US supermarket Walmart also did a pilot program using 2D barcodes from GS1 recently.

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Nvidia

MAY 14, 2021

In Russia, the startup has put a store within a store inside an Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain store located in Moscow. As an added benefit for retailers, Zippin’s platform can track products to help automate inventory management. “We

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Inside Retail

MARCH 23, 2022

Old-school retailers and supermarket chains are also contributing to the burgeoning demand for industrial space. Australian retailers are now far less likely to stock for “just in time” inventory management, now opting for “just-in-case” models.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

This can be seen by the adoption of QR codes – the use of which accelerated amid Covid-19 restrictions – self checkout in supermarkets and autonomous mobile robots, which are being utilised by major retailers for (among other things) logistical, supply chain and other inventory management tasks.

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V Count

MARCH 20, 2023

Your average shopper nowadays is more educated than ever —in the sense that they know what they need and want— meaning supermarkets and grocery shops must learn to adapt and leverage new technologies to help them understand what customers want and meet the modern shoppers’ demands.

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I Vend

AUGUST 17, 2022

Supermarket shopping is, for the vast majority of consumers, an essential. So what supermarket shoppers want above all is convenience. iVend Retail for Supermarket. Learn how we’re helping supermarket retailers around the world. iVend’s Grocery POS system is designed for convenience and speed.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2023

“This increased efficiency will not only support better inventory management, but it will also support Walmart’s rapidly growing e-commerce business,” Stephens Inc analyst Ben Bienvenu wrote in a note.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

“The Covid-19 pandemic has reduced consumers’ tolerance for out of stocks in supermarkets. Trax’s technology can also help to harmonise inventory management with availability to optimise shelf space.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

AI-driven technologies such as chatbots, automated customer service, and automated inventory management are set to revolutionise the retail industry and the way businesses interact with their customers.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 14, 2024

Whether you are browsing the aisles of your closest supermarket or walking the stalls of the local market on a Saturday morning, you are almost certain to come across some form of point of sale or point of purchase materials.

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I Vend

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Process automation – such as inventory management , tracking stock levels and re-ordering. The ‘checkout-less’ store concept which started with Amazon Go is being implemented by major retailers such as the UK’s Tesco, with their Tesco GetGo supermarket + in London.

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I Vend

MAY 10, 2023

Online shopping helps to drive sustainability in retail – imagine if 100 people go to their local supermarket, using their cars and producing emissions. Contributing to a cashless society by implementing a POS system that enables and promotes cashless payments is a positive environmental action.

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Retail Minded

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Trigo’s digital twin can be used for other purposes too, such as inventory management. . Smart cart startups in the market include Veeve , in use by Kroger and Albertsons stores; Caper , partnered with Wakefern and Canada’s Sobeys; and Shopic , used by Shufersal, Israel’s largest supermarket chain.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2023

There are literally hundreds of thousands of small independent grocery shops in Thailand, many of them without inventory management systems and occupying spaces that are distinctly lacking in glamour and décor. Enter the Donjai concept.

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I Vend

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Process automation – such as inventory management , tracking stock levels and re-ordering. The ‘checkout-less’ store concept which started with Amazon Go is being implemented by major retailers such as the UK’s Tesco, with their Tesco GetGo supermarket + in London.

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Retail Design Solutions

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As the traditional yellow discount stickers may soon become a thing of the past, supermarkets are turning to digital price tags and high-tech stickers to provide real-time pricing updates. Currently, UK supermarkets and food retailers are responsible for approximately 300,000 tonnes of wasted food each year.

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I Vend

JULY 16, 2024

One of the best examples of this is in inventory management. For example, a supermarket, optician, pharmacy, fashion apparel, thrift store, homewares, electrical or DIY store all have different operational processes. This in turn enables automation of re-ordering, based on reaching a trigger level of stock.

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