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Shekel Introduces Contactless Checkout Solution For Grocers

Retail TouchPoints

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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Australian retail’s robotic near future

Inside Retail

Potential Australian examples Coles and Woolworths: Both major Australian supermarkets have been exploring various technologies, including robotic cleaning and automated inventory management. Beyond customer engagement, the integration of AI with robotics will enhance security and loss prevention in Australian retail spaces.

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How to Design Your Retail Space With Security in Mind

Retail TouchPoints

Depending on if your location is accessible from the street, operating inside of a mall, a supermarket or even an airport, your security design should reflect this location. When designing your retail space, where and how you use security cameras is key to loss prevention.

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‘Not acceptable’: Drakes director exposes rising cost of retail theft

Inside Retail

Drakes Supermarkets is losing around $10 million each year largely due to theft in stores, according to company director John-Paul Drake. Retail theft is, of course, a much bigger problem that’s not confined to Drakes Supermarkets. “My Global problem. The team is far more switched on to what’s going on in our store.

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Benefits of People Counting and In-store Visitor Analytics for Supermarkets

V Count

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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More than plexiglass: Experts weigh in on rising retail crime rate in US

Inside Retail

The big picture According to Mark Stafford, national sales director in ANZ for Checkpoint Systems, a company that specialises in loss prevention, the rise in homelessness and loitering has contributed towards aggressive behaviour and increases in theft at high-risk locations. It’s the best move they can make,” he noted.

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Retail’s use of facial recognition raises red flags for consumers

Inside Retail

Supermarket Woolworths has also been singled out after a slide from a 2020 training module, uploaded by a user on Reddit, claimed it uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence in its CCTV system, and had shared this data with police in order to help them apprehend suspects.

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