Category Archives: POS Point of Sale

POS and Point of Sale — Automated Retail Systems and Retail Automation

The automated retail industry is one of the two core technology showplaces today (financial Services being #2).

    • Emerging technologies such as robotics, lockers, digital signage, vending and automated vending lead the way.   Amazon and Google revolutionize physical delivery. OuterWall has another great idea (or not).
    • More mature retail technology includes interactive displays, next-generation POS,  mobile interplay, multi-touch, kiosks for self-service, video services, and customer service technology.
    • Companion technologies include ATMs, kiosks, Advanced ATMS,  NFC and thin client.
    • Standards – here we have more regulatory guidelines in play along with more standards than any other industry. PCI, OPOS, JPOS, MPOS,  HIPAA, ADA, UL, CE just to name a few.

Independent ATMs 2025: Evolution Continues

NAC 2025 Serves Up Innovation In Las Vegas Attendees who converged on Caesars Palace for last week’s NAC 2025 conference and expo came in search of a better understanding of the role of ATMs in a changing world economy. Three days of education, exhibits and networking in Las Vegas hosted by the National ATM Council certainly delivered plenty… Read More: Independent ATMs 2025: Evolution Continues »

Out of the warehouse, RFID sows new uses

Customer experience, theft prevention, inventory transparency and more take center stage RetailNOW panel explores rising RFID use cases With technologies improving many aspects of retail operations, one longtime standby not to be overlooked thanks to its convenience and versatility is radio frequency identification (RFID). Best known for simplifying inventory management, RFID has evolved to improve the customer experience… Read More: Out of the warehouse, RFID sows new uses »

Revel Acquisition by Shift4`

Revel & Shift4 Analysis of acquisition of Revel by Shift4 — From Reforming Retail. Excerpt Mistruth #1 Shift4 offers payments and other technology to a range of industries, including restaurants. Its restaurant POS system, SkyTab, is used by operators of many large chains, including Burger King, Applebee’s and Denny’s. Huh? Here’s how Shift4’s communications will go: Shift4 to… Read More: Revel Acquisition by Shift4` »

Restaurant POS – Toast Hangs Back While PAR and Olo Battle

Restaurant POS News Nice article from Reforming Retail — recommended The enterprise segment of the US restaurant market (we’re defining as > 200-location brands) has few players. Long sales cycles, demanding customers, and impossible delivery given the paltry amount restaurants pay for fuck-all make this a futile market to serve. But hey, who are we to poke fun… Read More: Restaurant POS – Toast Hangs Back While PAR and Olo… »

Wendy’s POS System and Panasonic Case Study

Wendy’s POS System Case Study In the self-service world, the employee is an absolute critical component for success.  Equipping employees with reliable and training them to easy-to-use panasonic connect technology becomes extremely important.  Here is a POS case study provided by Panasonic. It’s worth noting that all of these stations are Intel-based workstations. You can email info@kioskindustry.org for more information. Background In… Read More: Wendy’s POS System and Panasonic Case Study »

Contactless Card Double Tap Trick

Noted on DailyMail A security loophole is allowing fraudsters to break the £30 spending limit for contactless bank cards. Banks and retailers are allowing customers to cover a single bill of more than £60 by making several ‘tap-and-go’ payments of £30 each. Experts have warned this is making it easy for criminals to make more expensive purchases on… Read More: Contactless Card Double Tap Trick »

Know the reason Starbucks hasn’t automated its stores?

Good article. What Starbucks tells us about automation and the future of jobs.

Source: www.vox.com

A Starbucks barista isn’t just doing a job that could be automated in the future. We’ve known how to build vending machines for coffee for decades, and with a bit of effort they could probably automate the sale of pastries too. Starbucks could lay off all of its baristas and make its stores fully automated.

 

But Starbucks isn’t going to do that because they know customers aren’t just coming for the coffee. The ritual of ordering coffee and having a human being prepare it is an integral part of the Starbucks experience.

KioWare News & profile

A new version of KioWare Classic for Window is now available.  The KioWare Classic for Windows Products (available in Lite, Basic, and Full), act as a secure kiosk mode, locking down the Windows operating system and desktop. Version 7.4.0 of KioWare Classic Lite, KioWare Classic Basic and KioWare Classic Full provides customers of the original KioWare software with… Read More: KioWare News & profile »

Company Update – Ingenico Devices for Payment, Partners

Update for Ingenico – October 2015 Would be a good time to update the offerings and collateral for Ingenico so here we go.   Products and Partner Collateral Partner-Brochure July 2015(2) iWL Seriesi SMP Companion iCMP 2015 Self-Service Solutions (high security) For ordering Ingenico products in the U.S.  here are useful link(s). UCP Inc. – Unattended Card Payments Inc. (UCP… Read More: Company Update – Ingenico Devices for Payment, Partners »