Amazon is scaling back its cashierless Go stores, the latest in a series of cost cuts. The move also comes as the giant retailer is tinkering with its physical grocery business. “Like any physical retailer, we periodically assess our portfolio of stores and make optimization...
As in-store shopping has resumed at full tilt following pandemic closures, it is clear that retail will never be the same. After two years of integrating eCommerce into their purchasing habits, shoppers are seeking new checkout experiences that offer the same benefits of speed and...
Waiting in checkout lines at retail stores seems so 2019 given the innovations in self-directed and unattended checkout. Even with those advances, adoption still has hurdles to clear. In a discussion for the PYMNTS Executive Insights Series, we spoke with Amin Sabzivand, senior vice president...
Since opening its first London store in 2021, Amazon Fresh has eschewed manned checkout stations. Following a model pioneered in the U.S., it has opted to kit each store with its “Just Walk Out” cashierless checkout technology instead. But recent reports suggest that for the...
March 30, 2024
Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible. Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field is expanding its use of Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, according to a March 21 news release. It’s also adding self-checkout kiosks from solution provider Tapin2. […]
February 16, 2023
Waiting in checkout lines at retail stores seems so 2019 given the innovations in self-directed and unattended checkout. Even with those advances, adoption still has hurdles to clear. In a...
December 29, 2022
With grocers projected to continue their digital transformations into 2023, four specific technology trends are set to lead the way. This, at a time when the fight among food sellers...
June 22, 2020
Raz Golan, CEO of Israeli-based mobile checkout company Shopic, says his company started out with the mission of shortening lines in grocery stores — a crowded space in and of itself...
March 06, 2023
Amazon is scaling back its cashierless Go stores, the latest in a series of cost cuts. The move also comes as the giant retailer is tinkering with its physical grocery business. “Like any physical retailer, we periodically assess our portfolio of stores and make optimization decisions along the way,” a company spokesperson told PYMNTS Monday […]
September 09, 2022
Cantaloupe, which works in digital payments and software services for the unattended retail market, has added a new CEO in Ravi Venkatesan, a press release says. Venkatesan, the current COO...
July 12, 2022
Amazon smart carts have new upgrades that include doubling the carts’ capacity and allowing for parking lot unloading, with expansion coming soon to the Whole Foods Market store in Westford,...
April 28, 2022
The Seattle Mariners and hospitality partner Sodexo Live! said this week that Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One are coming to T-Mobile Park, combining the two frictionless retail...
