Once again this year, numerous companies took advantage of the NRF Retail Big Show in New York to showcase their best and most innovative solutions for retailers. GFM News Editor-in-Chief Angelique Szameitat was live at the world’s largest retail trade show and conducted video interviews with some of the most interesting of them. A total of twelve representatives from companies such as gicom, Rizing, …
Location Weekly Podcast: Geo-location Payment app & AR packaging platform In this Episode of LocationWeekly we talk about BC Transit debuting NextRide real-time transit info, PayTile launching a geo-location payment app, Meta going after restaurant sales with WhatsApp ordering & Immertia releasing AR packaging platform. Tune in now!
Location Weekly Podcast: Same day delivery & store of the Future This Episode of LocationWeekly features Lowe’s Companies, Inc. + Instacart partnering on nationwide same-day delivery, Wegmans Food Markets shuts down self-checkout system on losses, SEPHORA to launch store of the future in Singapore and tpltrakker rolls out at Krave Mart in Pakistan! Tune in now!
Location Weekly Podcast: Self serve kiosks & autonomous robots This episode of LocationWeekly features US airports replacing self-serve kiosks with facial recognition, Woodman’s Food Markets’s using autonomous robots from Badger Technology Group to improve inventory processes, Avery Dennison teams up with the San Francisco 49ers for digital engagement & Retailers like Sephora, Home Depot, and others are becoming venture capitalists. Tune in now!
French retail giant Carrefour announced the company has teamed up with AiFi, a maker of machine-vision powered checkout tech, to launch a cashierless convenience store called Carrefour Flash. A unique experience Unlike Amazon Go or other cashierless platforms that require an app, smart shopping basket, or biometric check-in, AiFi’s technology utilizes a network of cameras on the retailer’s ceiling that monitors a shopper as …
Polish convenience giant Żabka Group has completed the opening of the largest chain of autonomous stores in Europe after launching 25 stores under the Żabka Nano and Żappka banners—with at least another 12 set to be added by March. Using contactless, AI-powered computer vision technology from U.S. tech player AiFi—a system similar to Amazon’s Just Walk Out set-up—the concept enables shopping to be checkout-free …
UK grocer opens SmartShop Pick & Go, a Just Walk Out-enabled convenience store in Holborn Circus, London. Amazon has collaborated with Sainsbury’s—one of the largest supermarket chains in the UK—to enable a checkout-free convenience store powered by Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology at their Holborn Circus location in the heart of London. Amazon’s work with Sainsbury’s means that they have become the first international …
The District’s first Amazon grocery store, the region’s second overall, opened Thursday morning in Logan Circle. At 7,302 square feet, the Amazon Fresh at 1733 14th St. NW is roughly a quarter the size of Greater Washington’s first Amazon Fresh store, which opened in May in Franconia. Still, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has elected to call it Amazon Fresh as opposed to Amazon Go …
The new store integrates the digital and physical retail experience, bringing together the connection and comfort of a Starbucks café and convenience of Amazon Go’s Just Walk Out Shopping experience. The new Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go in New York City is a combination of a Starbucks Pickup and Amazon Go, utilizing the order ahead feature in the Starbucks app and Amazon Go’s Just …
Over a year of pandemic-induced online shopping habits have accustomed us to seamless digital payments and quick, smooth purchases at checkouts. As consumers continue to chase that same agility in the physical world too, and merchants join the race to offer contact-free checkout experiences, the trend is now expanding to brick and mortar shops. Recently British groceries retailer Tesco opened its first checkout-free, cashier-less …
