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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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3.6KVending 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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3.7KVending MachinesAvis Takes Car Rental Mobile
Rental car giant launches mobile app and sensors to combat startups like Uber.
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6.4KMerchant 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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5.8KVending 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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7.6KVending 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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8.3KPayments 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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3.7KVending 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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8.7KVending 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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3.9KRetailUnattended 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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7.4KVending 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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7.0KVending 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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7.6KVending MachinesUnattended 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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2.4KControversialWanelo 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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3.3KMedia 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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1.5KNewsMerchant 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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1.3KCompany 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...
