Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Australian supermarkets will reap bigger profits in fiscal 2023 half-year due to decades-high inflation and increased savings, but analysts warned of a rough second-half as households reel from mounting expenses due to higher cost of living. Woolworths said food prices over the September quarter rose 7.3 per cent, while Coles reported a 7.1

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The numbers currently used to identify cards will be replaced with tokenisation and biometric authentication In 2022, Mastercard added biometric options enabling payments to be made with a smile or wave of the hand. Credit card numbers and payment details are often exposed in major data breaches affecting large and small businesses.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

While most supermarkets prioritized developments that facilitated COVID-era shopping behaviors like grocery delivery, curbside pickup or self-checkout, grocery shoppers are now looking for improved in-store experiences. They are experimenting with various engaging shopping experiences — not just building “end-caps.”

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Inside Retail

JULY 30, 2024

7-Eleven Australia has launched a 10-store trial of the next generation Pay & Go technology to test new ways to give customers a faster way to shop. The system automatically adds up the items, processes payment, and sends the receipt to the customer. Customers simply tap their debit or credit card or use the app to pay.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

However, the past few years have also exposed what online shopping just cannot replicate – human interaction, experiential shopping and social connection. . “We Of course, physical retail has had to undergo a few changes since the first wave of Covid, particularly at entry, payment and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

Asian-American supermarket chain H Mart has migrated from a legacy commerce platform to VTEX , an upgrade that allows the retailer to leverage store inventory to provide online shoppers with real-time product availability. Additionally, H Mart customers can now order both shelf-stable and fresh products in the same cart.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Thirteen years after Woolworths introduced self-service checkouts to Australian supermarket shoppers, discount grocer Aldi has bowed to the demand for quick and convenient self-serve transactions at its stores. Aldi’s move into self-service checkouts isn’t the only sign that the retailer is embracing digital transactions.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

The rise of online shopping scams presents significant reputational risks for e-commerce businesses of all sizes if they don’t take proactive measures to help protect consumers. million to online shopping scams, and over $92 million to scams overall, according to Scamwatch. So far this year, Australians have lost more than $1.2

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

Woolworths is launching its own stand-alone payments platform, Wpay, which will power payments inside and outside its group of businesses, and further extends the group into the retail ecosystem in Australia. It’s an exciting time in the world of payments with new technology driving better experiences for consumers,” Monnington said.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 13, 2024

John Lewis is planning to increase the amount of staff working on its shop floor as it unveils a multi-million pound investment into store technology. The retailer hopes this will be met through natural attrition and a voluntary redundancy process. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 16, 2025

The UKs second-largest supermarket said it expects retail underlying operating profit for 2025/26 to come in at around 1bn slightly down from the 1.036bn it delivered in the year to March 1 and below analysts expectations of 1.08bn. increase in annual profit.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

The newest generation of artificial intelligence (AI) would seem to be tailor-made for the behind-the-scenes operational complexity of today’s retail organization — and in many ways it is. The publication also has reported on the role of AI in Walmart initiatives to enhance search , add Text-to-Shop functionality and improve its supply chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Amazon ’s One palm scanner payment technology will reportedly expand to more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California, according to TechCrunch and other media outlets. Amazon One was launched in Amazon Go stores in 2020 and early 2021 before expanding to an Amazon Fresh supermarket later that year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2024

Automating manual processes can increase productivity, reduce costs and improve the customer experience. Digital Transformation Brings Cybersecurity Risks The retail sector has long been an attractive target for cyberattacks, as operators hold a significant amount of sensitive customer data.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 28, 2025

The supermarket chain will convert its homewares store in Crown Point Retail Park in Leeds to test the new format, which will be rolled out to further locations if successful. Asda is set to open its first standalone George store next week as it looks to replace its Asda Living brand portfolio across the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And the efficiency gains 5G supports will help improve operating margins. The supercharged network will support a range of use cases that improve the efficiency of operations and deliver seamless experiences for shoppers. Contactless shopping : This trend will continue beyond the pandemic, with 5G supporting further improvements.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The eQR payments platform is being rolled out in partnership with Commonwealth Bank and NAB, as well as with fintechs Azupay , Beem It and Merchant Warrior. Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are also on board as first adopters. What do QR-code payments mean for SMEs? This shift means SMEs have had to adapt, Boyd explains.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Manhattan’s Fairway Market grocery chain has partnered with Instacart to develop a new convenience-focused service called Fairway Now that will offer delivery of last-minute grocery items and household essentials in as fast as 30 minutes. Fairway Market is a trademark of the retailer-owned supermarket cooperative Wakefern Food Corp.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These experiences could go further through partnerships with supermarkets, where a QR code enables the consumer to fill their shopping basket with all the ingredients for a week’s worth of recipes and buy them with one tap on their mobile device.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2023

This doesn’t mean that your products don’t have to be attractive and of high quality — of course they do — but tourists don’t want to buy things from a supermarket, they want something new and different. That means outlets wanting to appeal to tourists need to still offer cash payments. Sticking to credit cards.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

If retailers think online shopping in 2021 is about the simple exchange of goods for money, they’re doing it wrong. This can be even more challenging as COVID-19 accelerated the move to online shopping more than any other time in history. Customers don’t just want to buy a product — they want an experience.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

The acceptance of cash has started to trend upwards again, but payment technology is helping businesses to deliver consistently better experiences, so what does the future hold? And how can businesses be ready for evolving payment technologies? Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Powered by Instacart , Aldi will offer nearly 2,000 of its most-shopped items for delivery in as fast as 30 minutes. The Aldi Express service is now available from more than 2,100 Aldi supermarket locations across the U.S. “We

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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. The discounter attributed its steep growth to its 16% surge in sales to £17.9bn and improved efficiencies across its stores and central operations. year on year.

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I Vend

AUGUST 10, 2021

The COVID surge for supermarkets The pandemic hit many retailers hard, with stores shut and high streets deserted. According to industry experts The Grocer magazine, UK supermarkets continue to see high levels of growth. iVend Supermarket iVend helps supermarkets offer uninterrupted service to their customers.

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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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Retail Gazette

MAY 2, 2025

M&S boss Stuart Machin has urged shoppers to visit its stores to shop in person over the bank holiday weekend.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2022

We’ve seen panic buying, the rise of the “homebody economy” and a strong shift towards contactless shopping. As we emerge from the worst of the pandemic, it seems the right time to reflect on the most important changes in consumer behaviour we’ve seen, and to make some predictions about COVID-19’s lasting and pervasive effects on how we shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2024

And stay tuned next week for a special bonus entry in the series — an on-the-ground take on the smart cart shopping experience. Most notable is Amazon’s recent pullback of its own tech, with the removal of JWO from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and its plans to focus on smart carts instead at new locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At this week’s ARA Leader’s Forum, MST Marquee’s Craig Woolford signalled that the effects of such high rate rises are likely to be felt in the retail industry for years to come, as customers change their shopping habits to deal with increased costs in every part of their lives. Grocery prices rose 9.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

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. Many access control solutions allow for integrations with other productivity and identity services that can assist in onboarding and offboarding employees.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 19, 2024

The changes come as the company’s global head of grocery and retail Susan Anderson insists grocery shopping trends have “fundamentally changed,” with consumers carrying out fewer big shops at the supermarket and leaning more on the convenience of apps.

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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

APRIL 29, 2021

Amazon.com has posted its fourth straight quarter of record profits, thanks to the global shift to online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic. . The two-day online shopping event occurred in October last year due to uncertainty around the pandemic. “In billion on sales of US$108.5 billion on sales of US$108.5 billion in 2019. “As

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

During the past 10 years, Qiping Sun, VP of Asia Pacific at LS Retail, an Aptos company, has witnessed significant changes in the Asia-Pacific retail landscape: the rise of e-wallets, the adoption of Software as a Service, the embrace of contactless service and self-checkouts, to name a few.

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