From Kiosk Industry Feb 2020 Excerpt: Self-Service QSR Kiosks Gaining Popularity Editors Note: Short and concise report on QSR Kiosk market. Nothing on drive-thru kiosks. Quite a few players not included (maybe next time). Example would be reference to McDonalds Times Square Flagship project (see CNBC writeup we published back in May 2019). That is Pyramid Computer out of Germany making… Read More »
Read full article on CNBC “I personally believe this is driven by the opioid crisis,” Carol Tome, Home Depot’s then-chief financial officer, said in a phone interview with CNBC in May. KEY POINTS Organized retail crime costs retailers nearly $778,000 per $1 billion in sales in 2018, an all-time high, according to a National Retail Federation survey In the… Read More »
Nice article on touchscreen treatments Touchscreen Surface Treatments
Cashierless Retail Kiosk News Valued at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has emerged as a soon-to-be tech giant and the best hope for merchants to compete with Amazon Go. Cashierless checkout is poised to transform brick-and-mortar commerce, and shop owners fear having to battle Amazon’s technology alone or partner with it, exposing data it could use… Read More »
Forbes Article on Turmoil in Grocery Industry The big question How will consumer adoption of online grocery shopping accelerate in the next several years? Will the leading companies in the grocery business in the U.S. right now be the leaders in the online grocery business in five to ten years? Excerpt What About Amazon? What’s so remarkable about… Read More »
Full article on Fast Company A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses. They didn’t expect it to be so popular Moxi is a robot designed to make nurses’ lives easier. But the friendly bot is turning out to be a welcome presence for some patients, too. By Katharine Schwab 5 minute Read Nurses are in high demand: The… Read More »
Excerpted from Fast Company April 30, 2019. Recommended read! Walmart’s AI-powered store of the future is nothing like Amazon Go There are cameras. There is AI. And the similarities end there. By Mark Wilson 5 minute Read When Amazon launched its first Go store in 2018, the public lined up around the block to see the future of… Read More »
Original complete article published on The Denver Post For more than a year, a thousand-foot ribbon of light has greeted people along Peña Boulevard at Denver International Airport. Now, the airport’s ready to make some cash on the eye-catching display. Installed in 2017, the sprawling LED display attracted criticism for its $14.5 million price tag. Airport officials said… Read More »
Original complete article published here – excerpt below As our everyday lives revolve around swiping, scrolling, and tapping, Taco Bell knew they needed to evolve their customer experience to match. Their solution? Self-service ordering kiosks—the latest innovative technology in the quick serve restaurant (QSR) world. By putting the ordering power in customers’ hands and freeing up staff to… Read More »
Retailers Pay Attention Kroger Shelf Labeling Originally published on Forbes – Excerpt below So while Kroger’s recent experiments may already be showing beneficial effects in terms of in-store conversion and basket size, the more important implications to Kroger’s tests are what they will ultimately mean for the company’s consumer price transparency and the longer-term health of Kroger’s business model itself.… Read More »
