The future is coming to McDonald’s and, according to recent reports, that future is going to look a lot like self-service order kiosks. According to Inc., the days of being asked “would you like fries with that” are coming to an end. Instead of a human...
It’s been about a year in the making. But here we go with Amazon Go, newly out of beta this week and available to the public, in what the eCommerce juggernaut hopes will be a brick-and-mortar retail game changer. It seems the brick-and-mortar arena continues...
Things aren’t so bubbly for chewing gum companies and confectioners. The impulse buy is dead, and self-checkout lanes may be to blame. Customers who scan their own groceries aren’t dawdling in a gauntlet of temptations like in the olden days of grocery shopping; they’re in...
After Amazon announced its $13.4 billion purchase of Whole Foods grocery stores last week, some are speculating that the supermarket chain’s cashiers might eventually be looking for new jobs, according to The New York Times. Amazon is already testing out a store in Seattle — Amazon...
July 07, 2019
Cameras reportedly are taking a more important place in the world of grocery, perhaps to the detriment of cashiers. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which said that the technology, “pioneered” by Amazon for its Amazon Go grocery stores, will allow such merchants to “cut costs and alleviate lines as they face an evolving […]
June 19, 2017
After Amazon announced its $13.4 billion purchase of Whole Foods grocery stores last week, some are speculating that the supermarket chain’s cashiers might eventually be looking for new jobs, according to...
May 22, 2017
Automation has hit the manufacturing industry hard, costing the industry millions of factory jobs — yet it has the potential to hit retail even harder. According to a new study by...
