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Unattended Retail
The rise of unattended retail – from yesterday's vending machines full of candy and soda to quick meals. Offering two-day delivery is the new standard — yet, even that isn't fast enough for most retailers.
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Unattended RetailHow Self-Service Retail Is Becoming Mainstream Retail
Vending machines aren’t about soda and salty snacks anymore — even if, at the consumer level, that’s what most people think of...
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Vending MachinesMcDonald’s Big Mac ATM
McDonald’s has spent the better portion of the last year developing and implementing strategies to bring the global fast-food franchise into the...
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InnovationOTI Debuts M2M Cashless Payment Gateway GoBox
Israel-based On Track Innovations Ltd., or OTI, just recently announced the release of a new M2M cashless payment gateway designed for unattended...
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RetailPYMNTS’ 2016 Roundup: Retail Edition
There’s no doubt about it. This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the...
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Vending MachinesAn Appetite For Unattended Restaurant Solutions?
Call it savory technology. American consumers, especially millennials, have an appetite for new payment technology from restaurants. For the latest Unattended Retail...
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Data DriversSecuring Unattended Retail Payments
Move over, velvet: Unattended terminals are the hottest trend in retail. But making them cashless is just the first step to getting...
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Vending MachinesUnattended Retail Tracker: Digging Into Restaurant Payments Innovation
American consumers have shown they’re hungry for new payment options. As documented in the December edition of the Unattended Retail Tracker™, the...
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Not Your Grandfather’s Automat
Stale sandwiches in cellophane? Watery coffee? No more. Self-service is changing the very way we eat and run, as USA Technologies CSO...
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Unattended RetailAttending To Unattended Retail
No more knobs. No more stale candy. The unattended retail experience is one that has evolved beyond the silvery machines of your youth...
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RetailIs There An Empty Retail Store Crisis?
It turns out that 2016 wasn’t just the year when consumers left brick-and-mortar stores behind. Layoffs in the retail sector have soared...
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Merchant InnovationSnapchat App Snapbots To Sell Smart Spectacles
The Snapbots are coming! The Snapbots are coming … to sell you Spectacles. That is, smart sunglasses sold from a vending machine....
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Unattended Retail: Future Of Fast Food Shown At Singapore Airport Food Court
Singapore is amping up their productivity, specifically in the food scene. Using automation and unattended retail in certain food courts, the Country...
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Payment MethodsUSA Technologies Adds minuteKey To ePort Connect Customers
USA Technologies (USAT), a payment technology service provider of integrated cashless and mobile transactions in the self-service retail market, announced Monday (Oct. 24)...
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Vending MachinesThrough The Looking Glass? When Storefront Windows Go Interactive
Interactive storefront displays may now be unlocking untapped sales at a business near you. For the October Unattended Retail Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke...
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Vending MachinesThis Vending Machine Has A Story To Tell
French publisher rolls out short story-dispensing machines in train stations in order to entertain riders and promote the company’s work.
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RetailFor Unattended Retail, Sea Change And Convergence
The march toward unattended retail, and connected locations that tell companies what consumers want, how they’re buying and how much, is gaining...
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USA Technologies Grows Cashless Footprint
A&A Vending Services is expanding its relationship with self-service retail market payment technology service provider USA Technologies (USAT). The company announced on Tuesday (Aug....
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Vending MachinesHow Cashless Vending Is Empowering Consumer Choice
Remember when the dollar bill slot was the biggest advance to hit vending machines? Donna Trego, CEO of 63-year-old Coastal Canteen, says...
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NewsChange Is Coming To Laundromats That Could, Among Other Things, Take Away The Change
Coin operated laundromats are a thriving industry, producing $5 billion in revenue a year, mostly in the form of quarters – that’s...
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Vending MachinesHow To Make 20 Billion Quarters Digital
Coin operated laundromats are a thriving industry, producing $5 billion in revenue a year, mostly in the form of quarters – that’s...
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Vending MachinesWorld’s First Vending Machine Café Comes To Singapore
The new dinning option offers everything from hot meals to drinks and snacks.
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Vending MachinesAvis Takes Car Rental Mobile
Rental car giant launches mobile app and sensors to combat startups like Uber.
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Merchant InnovationAre Robots The Future Of Fast Food Restaurants?
San Francisco will soon get its very own burger-flipping robot. A startup called Momentum Machines debuted a robot a few years ago...
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Vending MachinesThe (Unattended) Car Buying Alternative
Consumers now have another option to consider when they’re in the market for a car: a vending machine. No joke. In this...
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Vending MachinesThe Unattended Path To Car Buying
Consumers now have another option to consider when they’re in the market for a car: a vending machine. No joke. In this...
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Apple Pay’s Unattended Retail Boost
Advertising is designed to drive sales but it’s often tough to close the loop and prove the point. It’s a question that...
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Payments InnovationMasterCard Makes Robots Pay
Meet Pepper, the 4 foot (sorta) humanoid figure that will take orders at Pizza Hut and even let the consumer pay for...
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A Travelogue For Self-Checkout
Retail’s journey to become more automated has been one of fits and starts. But there are a couple of related verticals that,...
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Vending MachinesAutomation: Coming To A Hotel Near You?
Consumers want convenience and instant gratification, but friction in user experiences stand as an ongoing barrier. But self-service providers are looking to...
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Vending MachinesSelf-Service Tech Tackles Age-Old Pain Points
Consumers want convenience and instant gratification, but friction in user experiences stand as an ongoing barrier. But self-service providers are looking to...
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Retail Goes Remote
Vending machines: You put in your couple of bucks, you get a bag of pretzels; end of customer/brand transaction — right? Not...
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RetailUnattended Retail’s Payments Snapshot
Remember those clunky vending machines of yesteryear that demanded exact change, impossibly smooth dollar bills and perhaps a bit of teeth gritting...
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Vending MachinesUSA Technologies Expands Cashless, Self-Service Footprint
Self-service retail market payment provider USA Technologies (USAT) is expanding its relationship with Rawls Distributing Company to ensure all of the vending machines...
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Vending MachinesThe Future Of Unattended Retail Is Here
Automats delivered a roast beef and mashed potato dinner from coin-operated vending machines in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, self-service restaurants deliver...
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Unattended Retail Comes Full Circle
Automats delivered a roast beef and mashed potato dinner from coin-operated vending machines in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, self-service restaurants deliver...
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How Unattended Retail Doubled Apple Pay’s Merchant Footprint
When Tim Cook announced at Apple's last earnings that Apple Pay was being accepted at 200k new merchant locations, no one focused...
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ControversialWanelo and Nordstrom To Make Shopping Social Again
Social commerce hasn’t’ exactly set the world on fire. Wanelo and its new partnership with Nordstrom would like to change that. Wanelo’s...
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Media CenterTSYS Ties Helping ProPay Procure More Business
The payments industry this year will continue to see a lot of investment in new technologies, and while that will create...
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NewsMerchant Dashboard In CardinalCommerce’s 2014 Plans
CardinalCommerce, which prides itself as being a pioneer and an innovator in consumer authentication, has various plans in store for customers this...
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Company SpotlightROAM And Merchant Warehouse On Mobile Merchant Must-Haves
Mobile point of sale terminals have dramatically changed the way small merchants can conduct their businesses and process their payments. Now that...
