Bread? Check. Milk? Check. Vehicle registration renewal … check! Californians can now add DMV transactions to their grocery lists, thanks to an initiative that puts kiosks in grocery stores to reduce long lines and driver frustration. In this month’s Unattended Retail Tracker, Jessica Gonzalez of...
With growth rates that look more like tech companies and less like vending operators, the interactive retail kiosk market is poised to reach $1B just three years from now. The newly released Retail Kiosk Report, in collaboration with USA Technologies, tracks the growth and the use cases across 11...
One might just call this the age of unattended retail. Increasingly, retailers and other merchants are looking to give customers a more convenient and efficient experience by offering products and services via unattended kiosks. These machines mean that customers can interact with merchants more quickly,...
Unattended retail is becoming a fixture of the modern-day retail experience, from grocery stores to gas stations to vending machines, and it’s attracting plenty of attention from both consumers and fraudsters. Almost all consumers have interacted with unstaffed or unattended retail systems, according to a...
If you’ve ever watched a sci-fi movie set in the future, then you may know that pop culture has long fantasized of an automated future. As it turns out, fiction is rapidly becoming reality (depending on which film or show you’re basing it on). According...
Imagine dropping in a coin and watching your newly purchased vehicle be retrieved and brought down to the ground floor. For people in Austin, Texas, it’s a reality as Carvana, the online marketplace for buying used cars, has opened another multi-story vending machine for automobiles....
McDonald’s has spent the better portion of the last year developing and implementing strategies to bring the global fast-food franchise into the 21st century. Other global competitors have beaten McDonald’s to the punch tech-wise — Starbucks, Domino’s and Taco Bell, for example, are years ahead...
Call it savory technology. American consumers, especially millennials, have an appetite for new payment technology from restaurants. For the latest Unattended Retail Tracker, PYMNTS spoke with Dan McCann, president of Interactive Dining Technology, about his company’s touchscreen table and the future of the unattended retail...
American consumers have shown they’re hungry for new payment options. As documented in the December edition of the Unattended Retail Tracker™, the results of a six-month long study conducted by USA Technologies show that just informing customers that a merchant or vendor accepts Apple Pay...
