Giant Eagle teams with Plantensive on boosting product management

February 3, 2023

Food retailer and distributor Giant Eagle is deploying advanced category management technology from Plantensive in order to better respond to consumers…

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Circle K teams with cannabis vendor for store sales

October 26, 2022

Convenience retailer Circle K is teaming up with marijuana company Green Thumb Industries to sell cannabis at Circle K stores in Florida in 2023.

How the smart store is blurring retail distinctions

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Cashierless and contactless unattended retail technology has fostered retail formats such as 'smart stores,' blurring distinctions between traditional venues…

Swiss convenience store chain deploys bitcoin kiosks

October 4, 2022

Valora Group, a Switzerland-based convenience store chain, has introduced a kiosk that sells bitcoin at the company's k kiosk, Press & Books and avec…

LAX airport store will offer Amazon Just Walk Out tech

September 29, 2022

Travel convenience store operator Hudson will be opening two stores at Los Angeles International Airport and one, called Hudson Nonstop, will feature Amazon's…

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…

Tomra debuts smallest reverse vending machine for container recycling

August 16, 2022

Tomra Systems, a Norway-based provider of reverse vending machines for recycling containers, has introduced Tomra M1, its smallest reverse vending machine that…

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…

Improve Checkout Efficiency with Adjustable POS Scanners

Mounted on POS systems with an adjustable hinge, this innovative adjustable barcode scanner allows cashiers to easily read and analyze barcode labels by…

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…

Circle K taps Visual Art for digital signage upgrade

July 14, 2022

Circle K, a gas and convenience store chain in Norway, will upgrade to digital menu boards, provided by Visual Art, at all its 86 stations, according to a…

Hudson debuts non-stop store at Nashville airport

July 6, 2022

Hudson has opened its first Southeast Hudson Nonstop location, and the store features Amazon's Just Walk Out checkout-free technology.

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…

Smart checkout rolling out to Circle K, Couche-Tard stores

June 7, 2022

More than 7,000 Circle K and Couche-Tar stores are being outfitted with computer vision-based, self-checkout machines after a successful initial deployment in…

7-Eleven Japan Takes Contactless Shopping to the Next Level with Holographic Self-checkout Kiosks

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, March 08, 2022 - 7-Eleven Japan has decided to run a pilot trial with contactless self-checkout kiosks with holographic displays.

Circle K is loving the Bitcoin ATM

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

The consumer's embrace of self service has dovetailed with the rising popularity of cryptocurrency, as evidenced by Circle K's crypto ATM rollout over the past…

‘AI Clerk’ engages with customers in unattended 7-Eleven kiosk

March 2, 2022

Customers may now engage in live conversations with an artificial intelligence clerk in Korea's first unmanned 7-Eleven convenience store inside the Lotte…

The evolution of c-stores: How 3rd party apps are adapting to changing customer needs

by Brian Jefferson — SVP & GM Payments and Loyalty, PDI Marketing Cloud Solutions, PDI Software

By providing concise messaging around engagement, c-stores can enable customers to act on their own so that clerks can focus on checkout.

Sheetz chain taps Travis Sheetz as CEO

December 29, 2021

Restaurant and convenience chain Sheetz has named Travis Sheetz as president and CEO.