Kiosks with rentable chargers are everywhere in China: more than half of the country’s restaurants, train stations, airports, and malls had power bank rental, according...
Coffee retailers are driving ordering innovation with digital technology. Luckin Coffee, for its part, is entering the automated retail market with the rollout of a smart unmanned coffee...
Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has been brewing between...
Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co. has been a wholesale coffee roasting merchant in Richmond, Virginia, for years, but has recently started to include direct-to-consumer sales. The operation...
Brick-and-mortar retailers are testing intelligent shopping carts that are billed as a way to improve the in-store experience. Canadian food retailer Sobeys, for instance, is bringing...
Great news for innovative retailers. Less so for cashiers. The self-checkout system market is expected to increase from its current value of $2 billion to more...
Standard Cognition, which is an autonomous self-pay startup valued at $535 million, has set its sights on competing with rival Amazon Go, a cashierless enterprise...
Grocery group Casino Guichard Perrachon, along with its rival Carrefour, have been experimenting with keeping select stores open even after their employees go home. The...