THE SMART LOCKER: PAVING A NEW PATH FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

If the sight of a long checkout line is enough to make you pull a U-turn and head to a new restaurant or store, then you aren’t alone. So what is a smart…

NY arena pioneers Amazon’s ‘On The Fly’ automated retail

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Guests can insert their credit cards at the entry gates. Once inside, anything they take off the shelf is automatically added to their virtual cart. They are…

QuickTrip Tulsa store boasts Amazon Just Walk Out tech

August 22, 2022

The new QuickTrip store in Tulsa, Oklahoma is the first of the convenience retailer's locations to employ Amazon's Just Walk Out technology, a checkout-free…

Aisle 24 cashierless grocery chain expanding in Toronto

August 16, 2022

Aisle 24, a fully-automated, 24/7 cashierless grocery chain based in Toronto, has installed its solution in a location that includes surveillance coverage…

Contactless transactions soared in vending during pandemic

August 15, 2022

Contactless transactions soared during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a joint study by Cantaloupe Inc., a digital payments and software services…

Consumers still wary about touchscreen germs

August 15, 2022

Consumers are still concerned about using public touchscreens due to fears of germ transmission, according to a recent survey. Some are even changing their…

Convenience store launches EV powered store on wheels

August 12, 2022

FamilyMart, a Taiwan convenience store chain, has launched a convenience store on an electric vehicle that offers self checkout, according to a Taiwan News…

Bulk vending machine offers art work in Windsor

August 4, 2022

A bulk vending machine in Windsor, Canada allows patrons to purchase locally commissioned art work, according to a cbc.ca report.

UK supermarket chain deploying reverse vending machines for recycling

August 2, 2022

Iceland Foods Ltd., a Scotland-based supermarket chain with thousands of stores in the U.K., has selected Envipco, a Netherlands-based provider of reverse…

Love’s Travel Stops launching Jamba by Blendid robotic kiosks

July 27, 2022

Blendid, a robotic foodservice solutions provider, and Jamba, a provider of on-the-go freshly blended fruit and vegetable smoothies, made-to-order bowls…

UK retailer teams with Fujifilm on greeting card printing kiosk

July 15, 2022

Scribbler, a U.K. chain of greeting card stores, has teamed up with Fujifilm, a Tokyo based photography technology provider, to offer an instant greetings card…

Airport installs kiosks for automated baggage handling

June 22, 2022

Zurich Airport has integrated an automated baggage handling system to streamline the baggage drop process using 20 self-service kiosks, according to a press…

C-store chain installs self-checkout kiosks

June 22, 2022

Holiday Oil Co., a convenience store retailer with 67 locations in Utah, has selected Gilbarco Veeder-Root's Passport Express Lane self-checkout system to ease…

Deploying self-service channels in retail

by Brian Lannan — Vice President, Retail Experience, Avtex

Why conversational AI is the future of customer-driven self-service.

Why unattended retail is exploding in response to consumer acceptance

A host of technologies and service concepts have come on the scene as of late. What entities will service the rising number of unattended retail sites?

Vending machine uses vein mapping to verify age

May 13, 2022

FinGo, a London, U.K. based biometric identity authentication solutions provider, has introduced FinGoVend, a vending machine that allows users to pay and…

Hanoi replacing public hawkers with vending machines

May 5, 2022

Residents and tourists in Hanoi will be able to buy snacks, beverages, crafts and souvenirs from vending machines in public places by 2025 under a recently…

Korea telecom, Deep Brain AI team on customer service kiosks

May 4, 2022

KT, South Korea's largest telecom company, has teamed with Deep Brain AI, an artificial intelligence provider, to introduce customer service kiosks that can…

Startup integrates vending machines with delivery services

May 3, 2022

A Turin, Italy-based software company called VADO (Vending Automatic Delivery Operations) has introduced an e-commerce solution that allows vending machines to…

Carvana installs car vending machine in Houston

May 3, 2022

Carvana, an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars online, launched its newest car vending machine, located in Spring, Texas, a suburb of…