automated retail

Should Unstaffed Stores Be Shelved?
Should Unstaffed Stores Be Shelved?
August 15, 2019  |  Retail

Automation promises many benefits in retail, including the potential to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should,...

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Retail Automation: Big Bang Or Slow Build?
Retail Automation: Big Bang Or Slow Build?
August 09, 2019  |  News

Kiosks. Intelligent cabinets. Cashless stores. Retailers must embrace automation, as Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet, tells PYMNTS. But certain verticals...

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Putting Leisure In A Box, On Demand
Putting Leisure In A Box, On Demand
August 07, 2019  |  Retail

Some entrepreneurs create companies to tackle a challenge they have faced in their own lives. Ballbox Founder and CEO Alexander Hejazi, for instance, moved to...

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The Future Of Mobile Order-Ahead
The Future Of Mobile Order-Ahead
July 29, 2019  |  Today In Data

Mobile order-ahead is on the rise, as new players enter the delivery scene and voice assistants take hold. In automated retail, merchants are updating their sales models with new...

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Amazon Go Has Spawned Imitators, But Also Innovation
Amazon Go Has Spawned Imitators, But Also Innovation
July 22, 2019  |  Retail

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has...

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Are Smart Cabinets Retail’s Amazon Go Counterpunch?
Are Smart Cabinets Retail’s Amazon Go Counterpunch?
July 11, 2019  |  self service retail

Automated retail is bifurcated between in-store, brick and mortar efforts as seen with Amazon Go and on the opposite end of the spectrum, cabinets. Worldnet...

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Retailing The Automated Way
Retailing The Automated Way
June 27, 2019  |  Today In Data

Checking in on self-checkout, the move toward seamless shopping done in the physical realm but with eCommerce features is an inexorable one. The headlines may...

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