Western Union and High Street UPS, FedEx Strike New Ecommerce Partnership Deals wearable Archives – Tag Google brings local lead generation to Google Assistant and Google Home Social Media Photo Kiosk – Digital Signage Products Amazon Promotes Package Pickup Lockers Technology improves patient financial security – Post-Tribune MedAvail Raises $30M for Drug-Dispensing Kiosks Supreme Court Rejects Coca-Cola Case… Read More »
Panasonic Smart Food Lockers From BusinessWire Oct 2021 PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As college campuses modify operations in response to the ongoing pandemic, Transact, the leader in innovative credential and payment solutions for a connected campus, continues to develop and release technology solutions to benefit students, faculty and staff members’ health and safety. Today Transact announced three new software integrations with Apex… Read More »
From Forbes August 2021 — Angela Diffly Forbes Councils Member — Angela Diffly is co-founder of the Restaurant Technology Network. In Brief What about TikTok? Conversion from in-house to off-premise QR Codes Drones and BOTs Delivery Labor Excerpt: Is TikTok on your restaurant’s marketing strategy menu? If not, consider this. Ninety-year-old brand Ocean Spray landed 15 billion media impressions on TikTok… Read More »
Drive-Thru Automation News & AI Influence From NRN and Next Frontier August 2021 — The next part of the post-pandemic restaurant makeover? Robots In Brief Redesigns stress ease of customer experience like Panera’s geofencing technology and Taco Bell’s smartphone-operated food pickup. both KFC and Dunkin’ piloting checkout-free automated drive-thrus powered by AI in 2019. Valyant is partnering with Checkers and… Read More »
Shopping Center Kiosks and Vending Kiosk Article From ICSC August 2021 — Vending machines now feature digital touchscreens and even biometric facial identification to make the buying experience faster. In Brief Taubman highlighted and pitching most of their strategies Selling sauce, vape, skincare, drugs (Advil), cupcakes, eyelash extensions, PPE and CBD Revenue from vending machine still less that… Read More »
Amazon VISA Surcharge News From PaymentDive August 2021 — Amazon takes on Visa by imposing a surcharge in area and leaving open the possibility of extending it elsewhere to fight what it calls “Visa’s high cost of payments.” In Brief: Singapore Amazon customers are the first to see 0.5% surcharge on VISA payment use From Amazon — To… Read More »
Evolis Announces News Complete Range of Card Printers ID Card Printers Editors Note: Driver support — there are drivers for Windows, Mac OS, Linux. The spec sheets for each of the new printers and the brochure for the entire range are available as compressed pdf zip (evolis-brochures-compressed). A complete range of card printers for all your projects. Kiosk… Read More »
Aldi Rolling Out Self-Checkout at Grocery Pictures and Images on Google Discount grocer Aldi is rolling out a limited trial of self-serve checkouts in its stores in a bid to increase convenience for shoppers. Famous for the speed of its operator-manned checkouts, the self-serve checkout trial will be rolled out in ten NSW stores with each store to… Read More »
Historical Retail News Compendium We were doing some housecleaning from 2014 and for historical purposes here is Retail Systems news from 2014. Includes: Bitcoin writeup from 2013 — imagine buying then… Here they are InComm’s Corporate B2B Store Enables Retailers to Streamline Management of Corporate Gift Card Sales – Retail Automate PORTLAND, Ore. (Mar. 27, 2014) – InComm,… Read More »
Where we saw it… H-E-B is partnering with Texas A&M University to provide grocery delivery to people who live on its main and West campuses in College Station, Texas, according to an article posted Wednesday on the university’s website. Under the Campus+ program, customers at the university can receive grocery orders at eight dedicated delivery zones for a $5 fee.… Read More »
