NACS 2026: Connected technology reshapes c-store operations; 10 takeaways

Convention Report, Takeaways, Exhibitors

Published reports call the U.S. c-store business a mature industry in terms of growth, but technology offers big opportunities to gain share of consumer spending. That much was obvious at this past week’s NACS 2026 show at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

System integration emerged as a central technology theme: exhibitors connected checkout, payments, fuel, foodservice and analytics to help convenience retailers simplify operations and expand their offerings.

Under the theme “ROI: Return on Insight,” exhibits and education sessions examined how AI and automation can improve store execution and customer engagement.

Foodservice provides a strong incentive: prepared food and dispensed beverages accounted for 28.5% of U.S. in-store sales but 38.9% of in-store gross-margin dollars in 2025, according to NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores).

Following are 10 takeaways from the trade show floor.

Takeaways

1. Connected POS and forecourt systems simplify operations. Integrating checkout, payments and fuel control can speed transactions and free employees for foodservice, replenishment and customer assistance. Verifone expanded its Commander platform with loyalty, lottery, digital age verification and fleet payments. Dover Fueling Solutions’ Bulloch POS connects checkout, payments and forecourt control, while Computrol’s Simcom combines dispensing-control hardware with cloud-based remote management. Together, these offerings illustrated the shift toward connected store operations.

2. Integrated AI self-checkout targets speed and shopper assistance. Invenco, part of Vontier, demonstrated its Passport POS integration with Mashgin’s AI-powered self-checkout, emphasizing faster transactions and shrink management within the store’s existing platform. Fujitsu Frontech North America showed its POSi avatar, which guides shoppers through scanning and payment. Verifone also participated in a TruAge discussion on safely selling age-restricted products at self-checkout, highlighting a continuing challenge for unattended transactions.

3. Connected forecourts combine equipment monitoring with targeted promotions. Dover Fueling Solutions demonstrated remote monitoring and diagnostics for dispensers and payment systems, helping operators identify equipment problems and prioritize maintenance. Bennett Pump Co. showcased a cloud-based media platform spanning dispenser displays and LG Electronics’ window-facing screens. Tole Digital Signage showed canopy-mounted displays designed to promote in-store offers during refueling. The exhibits highlighted two applications for a connected forecourt: maintaining equipment uptime and encouraging customers to shop inside.

4. Foodservice technology connects ordering, kitchen operations and food safety. Exhibitors emphasized tools to support c-stores’ expanding foodservice operations. Toast Fuel combines fuel and retail payments with restaurant tools, including kitchen displays and online ordering. Toshiba partnered with Altaine to connect food-ordering kiosks with kitchen displays, while Partner Tech demonstrated its KDS A7 kitchen display system. TransAct Technologies showcased BOHA! tools for back-of-house workflows, food safety and grab-and-go labeling.

5. AI tools turn store data into operational actions and personalized engagement. The “Agentic AI for Around the Clock Retail” session explored how AI could monitor performance and support decisions across pricing, promotions and forecasting. Exhibitors demonstrated related applications: Vusion used computer vision and shelf data to identify merchandising issues, while Eagle Eye presented personalized offers based on purchasing history, local weather and customer behavior. At Elo Touch Solutions’ exhibit, URway Holdings’ AI Connect Bar supported conversational voice interactions at kiosks. Together, these examples highlighted AI’s expanding role in store execution and customer engagement.

6. Verification and vision technologies address checkout risk and store visibility. AgeChecker.net demonstrated age and identity verification for online and in-store purchases, while NCR Voyix highlighted its TruAge integration for checking age, ID validity and purchase limits. Cognetic Systems presented facial recognition and people analytics, and Hanwha Vision demonstrated cameras supporting people counting, queue monitoring and heatmapping. Digit7’s smart cooler used computer vision to recognize selected products and automate transactions. The exhibits illustrated distinct applications of verification and vision technology — from regulated sales and security to store analytics and unattended checkout.

7. Cash automation extends self-service and simplifies cash management. Crane Payment Innovations demonstrated an integration connecting its Paypod cash system with Mashgin’s AI-powered checkout, allowing customers to pay cash at the self-service kiosk. Fujitsu Frontech North America showed SmartCASH SE for automated cash acceptance and dispensing, while Glory Global Solutions presented Cashinfinity recyclers for checkout and back-office use. Sesami demonstrated connected cash-management tools for tracking cash flows and device activity. These offerings addressed both customer access to self-service and operators’ cash-handling workload.

8. Smart shelves and electronic labels target product availability and pricing. Digit7 demonstrated weight-sensing shelves that track inventory changes, while Vusion and Pricer showed connected shelf technologies. The operational opportunity is faster replenishment and pricing execution, rather than more shelf hardware. 

9. EV charging shifts attention to compatibility, reliability and the retail experience. The “Creating a Valuable EV Charging Experience” session acknowledged EV-market headwinds while anticipating continued demand for public fast charging, including from drivers without home-charging access. Electrify America presented charging equipment with both North American Charging Standard and CCS connectors, while Dover Fueling Solutions showed DC fast chargers with connector options and remote monitoring. Driivz’s latest industry report reinforced the importance of reliability: 59% of surveyed operators identified charger reliability and stability as the industry’s top challenge. For c-stores, the focus was not simply adding chargers, but delivering dependable service and creating a valuable retail visit.

10. Car-wash kiosks move beyond payment to personalized selling. DRB, part of Vontier, demonstrated its X-Start payment kiosk and Autonomous Sales Agent, combining payment processing with AI-powered customer engagement. The offering illustrated how unattended car-wash technology can support membership sales and personalized offers rather than simply collect payment.

Following are exhibitor highlights in alphabetical order.

Exhibitor Report

365 Retail Markets

365 Retail Markets, a provider of unattended retail solutions, presented its Vision Smart Store modules to enable patrons to shop from a glassfront cooler without scanning or waiting. The patron unlocks the cooler door using their payment device, then removes their products from the cooler shelf. The system’s AI-powered cameras track product movement and tag the selected products for automatic payment. Patrons simply unlock the store, take their items and close the door. 

The company’s PicoCooler Vision with age verification offers an AI-powered smart cooler equipped with integrated cameras, while the PricoAmbient Vision offers a standalone, AI-powered ambient cabinet and the PicoFreezer Vision offers an AI-powered smart freezer.

Acuative

Acuative, a provider of connectivity services, teamed with Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions to demonstrate its AutoConnect managed 5G connectivity that includes fixed wireless access, backup connectivity and ongoing network management.

The company’s AcuBoot service offers a remote power cycle when a carrier broadband modem locks up. The AcuBoot connects over its own dedicated T-Mobile 4G LTE connection independent of the device needing to power cycle. If the broadband modem is down, the AcuBoot is still reachable since it doesn’t rely on the network connection.

The carrier’s broadband modem plugs into the AcuBoot which plugs into a standard wall outlet, then connects independently over T-Mobile 4G LTE; no LAN or WAN is required.

AgeChecker.net

AgeChecker.net, an age verification technology and a first-time NACS exhibitor, demonstrated its age and identity validation technologies for both online and brick-and-mortar retailers. 

The e-commerce verification integrates with online shopping carts like Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento and checks a customer’s information against identity databases during the online checkout process.

The retail POS verification is a web-based application that integrates with a store’s existing POS hardware and barcode scanners. Store clerks can scan the 2D barcodes on the back of drivers’ licenses and government IDs to verify age, catch fake IDs and keep logs for compliance audits.

If the system cannot verify the age automatically, it  prompts the user to submit an image of their government-issued photo ID.     

All personal information is stored on a private network that is not connected to the internet. Photo IDs are not automatically stored; they are deleted as soon as the ID is verified. 

Once the customer has uploaded an ID and uses the same name, address and date of birth for their next order, they won’t be asked to submit an ID again. If one of those items changes or is entered inaccurately, the system triggers a prompt for a new ID. 

Bennett Pump Co.

Bennett Pump Co., a manufacturer of fuel dispensers, payment systems and related components for retail, commercial and alternative energy fueling stations, showcased its Bennett Media powered by LG Electronics, an electronics and displays manufacturer.

The exhibit presented a cloud-based platform for managing content across Bennett fuel-dispenser displays and LG window-facing screens. The dispenser’s embedded screen showed a beverage promotion, illustrating the customer-facing advertising application. The dispenser’s overhead sign and lower panel both read “Bennett MEDIA — Powered by LG Electronics.” 

Bennett Pump Co., in partnership with National Retail Solutions, also introduced a national pricing program designed to give independent fuel retailers a more affordable path to upgrading their forecourts. The program follows the companies’ July announcement, which brought Bennett dispenser support to the NRS Petro point-of-sale platform.

The program provides retailers with nationally available pricing on Bennett fuel dispensing equipment combined with NRS Petro technology, including an EZ PUMP payment at the dispenser. Operators who prefer Bennett factory payment equipment can choose that option as well.

Retailers can also configure Bennett dispensers with an optional 12-inch media display — a merchandising screen at the pump. Operators control their own screen content, including video, static images and sound, without requiring a monthly merchandising fee.

Cognetic Systems

Cognetic Systems, a provider of face recognition technology, offers facial image database search, recorded video investigation, real-time video screening and people analytics. The company’s FaceVACS-VideoScan performs real-time identity checks to flag known persons and alert the appropriate staff, while performing anonymous facial analysis to count individuals, analyze demographics and track people flow. The platform gathers anonymous demographic data such as age and gender while protecting personal privacy.

Features include:

• The solution stores the video sequence of the cropped face of each appearance.
• It compares all persons against each other in real time to cluster identities.
• It installs with a pre-defined catalog of events.
• It allows for custom configuration of event names and parameters.
• It performs investigations on persons appearing in real time camera streams.

The company’s enterprise solution consists of software, hardware (cameras and servers) and services (installation, maintenance and support.)

Computrol Fuel Systems

Computrol Fuel Systems, a provider of fuel and water management systems, and a first-time NACS exhibitor, presented its Simcom fuel system which pairs dispensing-control hardware with cloud-based management software, allowing operators to monitor and manage fueling operations remotely. 

The cloud-hosted remote management system allows fuel terminals to perform real-time authorizations and features automatic data synchronization. The system collects odometer readings that automates mileage data capture and offers a dashboard that allows access control.

The company’s EasyFuel+ option uses vehicle-mounted RFID tags and nozzle-mounted readers to automatically authorize fueling and log transactions. 

The company also demonstrated its Simcom Pay+ as an on-site payment add-on for its fuel management system. The terminal features a Nayax credit and debit card reader that accepts credit and debit cards, QR codes and NFC tap-to-pay.

Crane Payment Innovations

Crane Payment Innovations, a provider of automated payment solutions, demonstrated an integration between Mashgin’s AI-powered checkout system, CPI’s Paypod cash automation system and an Invenco self-checkout kiosk. The integration allows locations using Mashgin’s touchless self-checkout kiosks to accept cash payments. 

CPI’s updated Paypod offers rear access to cash cassettes for both coin and note recycling that temporarily store cash used by customers and reuses the cash to dispense change. The Paypod can recycle up to four different denominations with a recycling capacity of 30 or 60 notes per cassette.

The Mashgin self-checkout system uses 3D cameras and computer vision to identify multiple items simultaneously when placed on the system’s tray without the need for manual scanning or barcodes. 

Datalogic

Datalogic, a provider of automatic data capture and industrial automation, showcased its solutions to bring the right information at every step of the store journey, from the checkout counter to the backroom.

Features include:

• Handheld scanners, including the Gryphon and QuickScan families, deliver barcode reading at the point of sale. Wired and wireless options offer checkout setups and manual scanning needs.
• Magellan fixed retail scanners combine barcode capture, select configurations, support camera-based loss prevention applications and RFID-enabled checkout workflows.
• Mobile computers, including the Memor, Falcon and Skorpio families, use barcode capture to provide inventory visibility and verify pricing.

The company also showcased its Smart Portal, a wall-mounted self-service platform connected to centralized store data that brings multiple applications together in a single interface. Combining barcode scanning and NFC technology, it gives shoppers direct access to price checks, promotions, product availability and age verification for age-restricted purchases.

Digit7 

Digit7, a provider of AI-powered autonomous retail solutions using computer vision technology, showed its DigitCooler AI Smart Cooler, which allows customers to authenticate themselves, open the cooler, grab multiple products and leave while AI technology handles product recognition and transaction processing. The solution supports multiple transactions simultaneously and eliminates coil jams, stuck items, selection buttons and touchscreens. 

The company’s DigitShelves offer a smart shelf solution to provide shelf-level inventory management and visibility for ambient and cooler products. Using IoT connected shelf technology and weight sensing, DigitShelves monitor product movement, identify inventory changes and improve visibility into what is happening on the shelf in real-time. 

The company’s DigitCooler Retrofit upgrades existing equipment. 

Dover Fueling Solutions

Dover Fueling Solutions, part of Dover Corporation and a provider of energy dispensing equipment, electronic automation, POS, payment systems, automatic tank gauging and subscription solutions to fueling and convenience retail venues, highlighted DX Monitor, Bulloch POS and Anthem UX platforms.

DX Monitor helps retailers turn equipment and site data into actionable insights through remote monitoring and AI-driven analysis. Utilizing the ability to remotely update software and firmware at the dispenser, DX Monitor offers visibility over the health of each forecourt, enabling the operator to proactively prioritize maintenance activities.

Features include:

• Enables dispenser and payment-related software updates through centralized and remote software. The operator can monitor the flow rates of every fueling point and grade and receive proactive alerts when slow flow rates are detected.
• Remotely reboots a payment module for basic troubleshooting.
• Allows viewing of dispenser logs.
• Tracks flow rates per dispenser and fuel grade and displays trend charts.
• Every card read is logged to ensure every payment module is functioning properly.
• Provides the ability to bulk distribute and validate upgrades to connected devices. 

The company’s Bulloch POS, designed for multi‑site operations, enables centralized management, integrates with payment processors, back‑office systems and forecourt devices — including dispensers, price signs, car washes and tank gauges.  

The company’s Anthem UX platform is designed to improve the customer experience.

Features include:

• Multi-channel media selection provides customers with their choice of content. Local weather and traffic information are available, as well as entertainment and information options. 
• Multi-language capabilities allow registered customers to immediately be recognized and automatically served in their language of choice. 
• The platform supports contactless cards and mobile payment, such as Apple Pay and Android Pay, and allows customers to select receipt format —printed, SMS or email.

Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye, a provider of an AI-powered SaaS platform, showcased its loyalty, promotions and personalization services. 

Features include:

• Real-time personalization delivers contextual offers based on live factors like local weather, purchasing history and individual customer behavior. 
• AI-driven gamified challenges support interactive loyalty mechanics which allow loyalty members to opt into personalized challenges through mobile apps or web/in-store channels.
• The unified cloud-native platform supports loyalty, basket-tier and fuel promotions, subscription models and single-tap mobile wallet integrations from a single API-first system. 
• Fuel and in-store integration tools are designed to increase basket sizes, drive repeat visits and bridge digital experiences with physical store traffic.

ECRS

ECRS demonstrated its Catapult platform that unifies retail checkout, self-service, e-commerce, inventory, loyalty and back-office management using shared transaction logic and real-time data.

The company positions the shared transaction logic as a way to reduce disconnected systems and the technical complexity of coordinating them.

The ECRS Catapult TS (transaction server) ensures pricing and item updates are automatically synchronized with the Catapult enterprise system.

Catapult supports the company’s recently announced AutoScale Max G3, the next generation of its weighing and labeling solution, featuring an upgraded processing architecture built on the Intel U300 platform. The Max G3 supports deployment configurations including counter, tabletop, production wrapping stations and a self-service model with AI powered product recognition.

The company also demonstrated its VisionCheck computer vision self-checkout kiosk that identifies up to six items at once and adds them directly to a transaction without requiring individual scanning.

Electrify America LLC

Electrify America LLC, a branded EV charging network, introduced colocated dual NACS (North American Charging Standard) and CCS (Combined Charging System) EV charging pump connectors. NACS uses a compact plug with the same power contacts for AC charging and DC charging while CCS uses a larger plug with two additional contacts dedicated to DC charging. Both systems let a vehicle use one charging inlet for slower AC charging and rapid DC charging.

The co-located NACS and CCS connectors mark the company’s first model to offer that combination. 

The offering is part of the company’s Powered by Electrify America program that lets convenience retailers and other businesses own EV charging stations and operate them under their own brands. 

The company also announced that Wawa, the convenience store chain, continues to grow its EV charging network, with more than 280 locations to date with an additional eight Wawa branded chargers through the Powered by Electrify America program.

Elo Touch Solutions

Elo Touch Solutions, a manufacturer of touchscreen technology, interactive displays and POS hardware, presented commercial-grade touchscreen monitors, interactive displays and digital signage platforms designed to enhance in-store convenience, self-order and customer engagement. 

Alongside partner Kitestring, Elo featured its touch hardware in a live, multi-vendor ecosystem demonstration to show how retailers can mix and match software from providers like Toshiba, Diebold Nixdorf, GK Software and Scale Computing directly on Elo’s processing and touchscreen terminals. 

The collaborative demonstration highlighted LISNR proximity-triggered mobile activation software running across Elo’s display interfaces, supporting frictionless payment and loyalty interactions.

The company also demonstrated the AI Connect Bar from URway Holdings offering conversational voice AI for customer experiences. The AI Connect Bar combines a beam-forming microphone array with an amplified speaker into one peripheral with a single USB-C connection to attach to all-in-one touchscreens, touchscreens with computers and kiosks. The AI Connect Bar leverages wave-forming architecture that optimizes sound dispersion while reducing unwanted resonance, using dual microphone digital beam forming for directional sensitivity.

Encore Technologies

Encore Technologies, an IT solutions provider, introduced its C-StoreCEO mobile back office for c-stores. Features include:

• The Alisha Encore intelligence assistant offers a conversational AI assistant that helps operators access store data, track live metrics and make faster operational decisions. 
• AI-powered back-office tools enhance the back-office ecosystem to simplify daily tasks like automated lottery reconciliation, fuel margin tracking, bank reconciliation and real-time remote price book updates.

The company’s enterprise suite combines the following six functions: 

• Fuel: Manage deliveries, payments, credit cards, jobber cards, gas cash cards and environmental tank reports.
• Lottery: Have sales, payments and settlements reconciled automatically.
• P&L: P&L for the whole store or one service line, built for c-store math, not generic accounting categories. 
• Bank reconciliation: Builds the expected bank entry from the day’s data, so matching the system against actual takes minutes. 
• Payroll and time sheets: Clock in by password or fingerprint. Time sheets become payroll without re-keying. 
• Price book: Build the sheet once, push it to every store from anywhere. No more per-register updates. 

Envyvision

Envyvision, a provider of video intelligence and loss prevention solutions, introduced its integration with Veesion, an AI-powered theft prevention platform, offering AI-powered gesture detection, which flags shoplifting movements like concealing items in bags or clothing and pushes short video alerts directly to staff phones. 

The solution does not require any new cameras and has no impact on bandwidth. The video footage can flag 12 specific gestures commonly linked to theft, such as concealing items, sweeping shelves, dropping items into bags and consuming product in store. When a gesture is flagged, the system sends the store staff a video clip of what happened and where. 

Envyvision also demonstrated its smart site protection, object search, AI incident prediction and exception-based reporting tools, as well as connections with smart safe systems to monitor cash handling and audit financial/inventory transactions. 

Fujitsu Frontech North America

Fujitsu Frontech North America demonstrated how modern retail technologies work together to improve everyday operations, offering solutions that address checkout efficiency, enterprise management, store operations and AI-driven decision-making, all within a connected retail ecosystem.

Instead of applying the same level of friction to every transaction, Fujitsu leverages AI technology to introduce the right amount of friction at the right time to guide shoppers through transactions while protecting retailers from shrink.

The company demonstrated its POSi avatar, a personalized checkout interface, at a retail self checkout machine. The avatar uses AI to guide shoppers through self checkout, helping them scan items and complete transactions.

The avatar can assist, detect and adapt to all checkout situations, allowing shoppers to avoid and resolve issues at self checkout. POSi accesses data from POS, loyalty and inventory systems, enabling AI‑driven automation that can reduce queues, flag exceptions and support attendants.

The company also showed its SmartCASH SE cash automation solution designed to simplify cash handling at the front-end. By automating cash acceptance and dispensing, the solution helps improve accuracy and reduces the amount of time collecting and counting cash. 

Glory Global Solutions

Glory Global Solutions, a provider of cash automation and management solutions, introduced its Co-op Shared Branch Express functionality to credit unions using its TellerConcierge integrated kiosk as the enabling technology under its newly-announced its partnership with Velera, a payments credit union service organization and integrated financial technology solutions provider. 

The partnership will integrate Velera’s account-based network with TellerConcierge, empowering credit union members and guests to independently perform the most common shared branch transactions. 

Members and guests who choose Shared Branch Express can use a network of shared branches to complete transactions at participating locations when they are away from their home branch.

The company also featured its Cashinfinity line aimed at speeding up transactions and securing back-office handling. The line includes CI-10X, A POS cash recycler for cash acceptance and change validation; CI-100X, a back-office cash recycler to reduce manual counting and cash-in-transit pickups; and C27, a cash-enabled, self-service kiosk.

The company also displayed its Acrelec self-service kiosk under its Acrelec subsidiary.

Hanwha Vision

Hanwha Vision, a provider of security and analytics, demonstrated its four-sensor 4K IP surveillance camera for wide-area coverage and edge AI. The unit combines four independently adjustable 8 MP cameras — 32 MP total image capture capacity — with Nvidia Jetson Orin compute hardware inside one housing.

The camera’s Wisenet 9 SoC is powered by a dual NPU architecture to ensure video quality and AI analytics operate on independent resources so that neither function impacts the other.

The camera gathers analytics, including people counting, crowd counting, queue management and heatmapping to provide actionable insights without additional hardware or licenses. The AI-based analytics also support slip-and-fall detection, loitering, line crossing and virtual area monitoring.

By integrating AI-powered video analytics, proactive audio messaging and multi-color visual notifications into one platform, the all-in-one camera helps reduce installation complexity, minimize hardware requirements and streamline deployments across indoor environments. 

The camera enables immediate detection and response, whether through real-time video analytics, high-volume audio alerts, full-duplex two-way communication or LED notifications, supporting decision making and direct interaction with on-site staff. 

Ignite Retail Technology

Ignite Retail Technology, a retail technology provider, introduced its Mission Control automated, marketing and campaign delivery platform that utilizes live customer behavior data for real-time offer deployment. The tool is designed to build customer loyalty by enabling personalized offers across mobile, pump, text and email messaging.

Offerings also included:

• A customizable loyalty platform manages promotions, real-time retail data experiences and integrations like mobile ordering.
• The company’s BrandLift e-coupons offer supplier coupons through mobile apps.
• A real-time, front-line management dashboard is designed to optimize cashier workflows and turn traditional checkout into a tech-assisted command hub.
• A real-time financial analytics portal provides operations with immediate access to sales, cost and margin insights across store locations. 

In-Store.ai

In-Store.ai, provider of a conversational AI platform for retailers, displayed how its speech-analytics technology turns everyday counter conversations into actionable operational insights. The technology analyzes cashier–customer conversations to help retailers improve loyalty enrollment, promotional execution and employee coaching. 

The company described an edge-to-cloud platform that captures and analyzes checkout conversations and delivers dashboards, reports and alerts.

Features include:

• Cashier engagement: tracking greetings, loyalty-program prompts, upselling and promotional mentions.
• Employee coaching: identifying gaps in frontline execution so managers can target training.
• Shopper and operational insights: identifying customer sentiment, product requests, availability issues and service problems from conversations at the counter.

Kisan America Inc.

Kisan America Inc., a provider of cash automation services, showcased its cash automation and banknote recognition solutions tailored for retail and convenience store back-office management. 

Offerings include: 

• Smart safes and deposit solutions such as commercial cash-room models like the Kisan KD10 and KD100 designed for bulk feeding and automated cash flow optimization.
• Currency counters leveraging the Kisan recognition platform and dual CIS sensor technology, including currency counters like the Newton 3V and the Newton Mini, which handle multi-currency tracking, counterfeit check detection and real-time serial number scanning. 
• Recyclers such as the KR10 cash and coin recycler. The KRB10 is a banknote recycler while the KRC10 is a coin recycler.

Kisan America also displayed a cash-and-coin recycling system alongside a presentation promoting Morphis cash-management software. Morphis Inc. focuses on enterprise logistics software, cash forecasting and currency supply chain tracking.  

Kitestring Technical Services

Kitestring Technical Services, a retail consultancy, showcased its Connected Convenience Experience, demonstrating how  technologies from different suppliers can work together in a convenience-retail environment. The company serves as a vendor-agnostic technology consulting, POS implementation and systems-integration firm. Services include system selections, custom design and development.

The company featured LISNR, an ultrasonic, data-over-audio platform that transmits customizable packets of data using inaudible, high-frequency sound waves. The LISNR SDK enables secure device-to-device transmission that can integrate with checkout systems. 

The company also featured software from Toshiba, Diebold Nixdorf, GK Software and Scale Computing, running on hardware that includes Elo Touch and MicroTouch. 

Mashgin

Mashgin, a provider of AI computer vision powered self checkout technology, introduced a form factor designed to maximize cashier efficiency during busy periods. 

The new design takes up less counter space, making it easy for cashiers to assist guests who need help with an age-restricted item or want to buy something from behind the counter. Customers who don’t need help can buy gas or check out on their own. A cashier overseeing two Power Counters can handle triple the throughput of a cashier just using a traditional register. 

Mashgin uses computer vision to instantly ring up items without the need to find and scan barcodes. Customers simply place their items down and they all ring up instantly, shortening transaction times and lines.

Nayax Ltd.

Nayax Ltd., a global commerce enablement, payments and loyalty platform provider, highlighted its forecourt control and fuel station management ecosystems, including its VPOS Media 5 Outdoor Payment Terminal, a contactless, pay-at-the-pump terminal designed to fit existing fuel dispensers without needing a full pump replacement.

The ecosystem includes:

• The VPOS Media 5, featuring a 5-inch touchscreen, pin-on-glass functionality and accepts all types of payment methods.
• The VPOS Media 10 features a 10-inch touchscreen, pin-on-glass functionality and accepts all types of payment methods.
• The NXFuel Home Base, an automated fueling hub for fleets, municipalities and emergency services, The Android-based system allows only authorized users and provides connected data, including real-time reporting of every liter, fueling event and user.

The company also announced a distribution partnership with Allied Electronics Inc. to bring Nayax Fuel’s VPOS Media 5 outdoor payment solution to fuel retailers across the U.S.

NCR Voyix

NCR Voyix, a provider of unified commerce solutions, introduced the integration of the TruAge digital age-verification solution with NCR Voyix POS technology. NCR Voyix retail customers can deploy the certified solution through an API integration from Cullinan Group, while the new Voyix POS for CFR solution includes native support for TruAge.

TruAge allows retailers to verify age, identify fake or expired IDs and check purchase limits by scanning a physical or digital driver’s license. The solution uses secure, anonymized tokens to confirm eligibility without storing unnecessary personal information.

The TruAge digital age-verification solution, a not-for-profit industry solution funded by NACS and Conexxus, addresses checkout friction points by automating age assurance.

Features include: 

• Privacy-first data protection: Standard ID scanners often read up to 33 data points, including name, home address,and height). TruAge isolates four data points to verify eligibility: the license number, issuing state, birthdate and expiration date.
• Tokenized compliance: The isolated data is instantaneously converted into a secure, anonymized digital token in the cloud to confirm age. Because personal information is never stored locally on the POS, retailers eliminate data liability while maintaining court-admissible transaction logs to prove compliance with law enforcement. 
• No added overhead: Frontline store associates scan state-issued physical or mobile drivers licenses. The software instantly flags fake or expired IDs and enforces pre-configured volume purchase limits, removing manual “mental math” or employee friction at checkout.

TruAge is free to c-stores and small retailers and is available through Cullinan Group.

The company also demonstrated NCR Voyix POS for CFR, a POS solution designed for convenience and fuel retailers to unify store, foodservice and forecourt (fuel pump) operations into a single platform. 

Features include:

• Unified workflows: Connects in-store retail, commercial fuel management and kitchen/foodservice operations.
• Fleet payment processing: Provides native support to accept major commercial fleet payment methods and cards, such as WEX, Voyager and Corpay. 
• Age verification integration: Includes native support for digital age-assurance tools like TruAge to scan physical or digital IDs, verify age or expiration and check purchase limits securely. 
• Ecosystem connectivity: Integrates with other platform applications like Voyix Kitchen and Voyix Connect.

PAR Technology

PAR Technology Corp., a provider of cloud-based software, hardware and data solutions for restaurant, retail and commerce operations, demonstrated products offering AI-powered retail insights and in-store customer engagement solutions.

• Par Intelligence includes AI-powered tools to identify business-performance drivers, uncover opportunities and prioritize actions. The company positioned it as a way to move beyond reports and dashboards toward understanding what retailers should do next. 
• Touchpoint offers in-store engagement technology to increase loyalty participation, influence purchasing decisions and connect with customers beyond the pump, mobile app and POS. 
• Customer intelligence and identity resolution offers capabilities that connect customer interactions and provide context for engagement. The company described these as working behind the scenes of the two featured experiences, rather than as a separate hardware exhibit. 

Partner Tech Corp.

Partner Tech Corp., a kiosk manufacturer, introduced its Florence modular POS powered by Brick IOX, the connection hardware that links the Florence computer to checkout peripherals.

The Florence POS features three modules on one unified platform: a 15.6-inch PCAP touch display, a compute module with Intel Alder Lake, and a modular Brick IOX expansion hub.

The fanless display features two connection modes: One as a display only and the other as a POS terminal with a compute module installed.

The company also showed its Audrey II all-in-one POS terminal in 15-, 15.6- and 21.5-inch display configurations, and its KDS A7 kitchen display system for managing foodservice orders.

The company also announced that its AI self-checkout platform has earned Commander certification from Verifone, allowing retailers to add Partner Tech’s advanced self-checkout terminals alongside their existing Verifone Commander C18 terminals without replacing payment, fueling, loyalty and store management infrastructure within Commander.

PDI Technologies

PDI Technologies, a provider of c-store and petroleum store technologies, introduced its PDIQ, an agentic AI solution embedded directly into the retail workflows, enabling intelligent agents to generate insights and take action. Integrated across PDI’s ERP, POS, loyalty, payments and other business solutions, PDIQ helps organizations adopt AI within the systems they already use. The agentic architecture enables AI agents to plan, recommend and execute tasks across connected workflows, automating routine processes and delivering real-time insights.

More than 600 intelligent agents are used across PDI’s engineering, customer support and sales organizations.

PDIQ incorporates human-in-the-loop controls, data isolation and auditability to ensure AI-driven actions remain transparent and aligned with business requirements.

The company also showed its Orbis POS software, part of an integrated suite connecting checkout transactions with store-level back-office and corporate office systems. 

Pricer

Pricer, a provider of electronic shelf labels, presented its SmartTAG Color, bringing full-color communication to the shelf edge to highlight promotions, product information and messages.

Available in six colors, the tag combines visual communication with LED flashing to help store teams and shoppers identify products and offers. 

Solutions also include:

• Pricer Avenue is a battery-free electronic shelf-edge platform with a powered rail.
• Pricer Plaza is a cloud-based platform for managing electronic shelf labels and shelf-edge communication at scale to help retailers centrally manage pricing, promotions, product information and in-store execution.
• Plaza Designer enables staff to create and update shelf displays across stores. 

Sesami

Sesami, a provider of a cloud-based cash management technology platform, showed its RC5000 recycler that replaces tills by enabling a flexible cashier or customer-facing cash payment device. Cash deposits are securely counted and stored, enabling a closed cash management process.

The unit can fit under a counter, enabling it to integrate as a self-checkout solution, assisted self-checkout solution or cashier-facing payment terminal 

The RC5000 can serve as a component of a comprehensive cash management dashboard, point-of-sale system or remote service monitoring tool. The cloud-based software integrates devices to provide real-time financial dashboards, cash-flow forecasting and automated tracking across supply chains.

The company also showed smart safes and front-office cash recyclers integrated with Sesami’s software, along with back-office recycling systems intended to simplify cash handling and reduce overhead. 

SOLINK

SOLINK, a provider of agentic vision intelligence and a first-time exhibitor, introduced SOLINK AI agents, designed to bring intelligence to every part of business operations. These capabilities turn existing video footage into action — reducing theft, preventing threats and driving revenue across every location. 

SOLINK AI Agents monitor cameras and operational data in real time, flagging only the events that require human intervention.

SOLINK AI Agents come with a library of pre-built agents:

• Overnight guard: A virtual security presence that monitors sites after hours — catching threats and deterring loss without the overhead.
• Loss prevention: Catching anomalies like sweethearting, discount abuse and fraudulent returns. 
• Store readiness: Monitoring visual compliance across locations — ensuring stores are clean, organized and meeting brand standards. 

Toast Inc.

Toast Inc., a provider of digital technology platforms for restaurants and retail, introduced Toast Fuel for fuel operators and convenience stores. With Toast Fuel, operators can manage fuel payments, both in-store and at the pump, alongside retail and foodservice on a single, connected platform. 

Integrated into a unified, cloud-native platform for fuel, food, and retail, Toast Fuel offers:

• Support for fuel workflows: Toast Fuel gives cashiers a dedicated forecourt interface, including a real-time pump dashboard, the ability to authorize or stop a pump, and the fuel-specific transactions operators manage all day: prepayment by cash or card, Rest in Gas, and Move Prepay. At the dispenser, Toast Fuel supports EMV-certified payments and fleet card acceptance, including cash and credit prices at the pump. An offline mode keeps transactions moving at the pump and in-store if the internet connection drops.
• Tools for kitchen management: Toast Fuel adds the same kitchen automation technology built for Toast’s approximately 180,000 customer locations, including kitchen display systems, digital menus, online ordering, delivery, drive-thru and handhelds.
• One cloud-native operating system, from forecourt to back office: Operators can connect data from the pump, POS, checkout, kitchen and online ordering through Toast Web, the back office built into Toast’s platform, reducing reliance on third-party systems.
• AI-powered business insights with Toast IQ: Toast IQ, Toast’s conversational AI assistant, draws on an operator’s own data across fuel, retail and foodservice, with no separate reporting tools required. Operators can ask Toast IQ in plain language about their fuel and in-store margins down to the SKU, or whether there’s enough coffee and roller-grill stock to get through a holiday weekend — from behind the counter or on mobile devices.
• Products to help grow demand: Toast IQ Grow, Toast’s marketing solution, brings the marketing engine built for restaurants and retailers to convenience, helping run the ads, email and SMS campaigns that promote meal deals and drink specials.
• Toast is partnering with OWL Services, a service provider that installs and services fuel dispensers.

Tole Digital Signage

Tole Digital Signage, a provider of digital signage and connected customer journey solutions built exclusively for gas stations and c-stores and a first-time exhibitor, introduced a multi-touch promotional journey from the pump to the inside of the store.

• At the pump: Canopy column-mounted displays are designed to engage customers during their 3-to-5-minute refueling window with targeted offers such as coffee and breakfast deals. 
• At the window: Storefront window screens face outward to capture foot and vehicle traffic as customers approach the building. 
• Inside the store: In-store menu boards and point-of-purchase displays carry the same promotional campaigns into the store. 

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions introduced its Elera self-service grocery self-checkout platform to c-stores. The solution is built on a cloud-native, microservices-based modular framework that allows operators to run self-ordering and grab-and-go kiosk experiences across various hardware layouts. 

Because Elera is cloud-based, hardware and deployment-agnostic, hospitality brands can run the software on Toshiba hardware, such as the grab-and-go MxP Vision Kiosk, or on existing third-party restaurant endpoints without a complete infrastructure overhaul. 

Features include:

• The platform supports computer vision, AI-driven workflows and frictionless capabilities. In a grab-and-go setting, it can trigger backend kitchen systems or adjust pricing based on predefined business logic.
• It natively integrates with a variety of payment suites, supporting traditional chip/PIN cards, contactless options, mobile wallets, and biometric verification, such as PopID.
• Menus, attributes and user interface layouts are configured centrally via the Elara admin platform, supporting the orchestration of pilots and multi-location updates.

The company has also partnered with Altaine, a digital commerce provider, for its kitchen display system to support the food order kiosk. Altaine provides an omnichannel commerce platform tailored for the c-store and QSR sectors. 

Transact Technologies Inc.

Transact Technologies Inc., provider of SaaS platform and integrated hardware solutions, introduced its next-generation BOHA! SaaS foodservice technology to modernize back-of-house operations through a scalable cloud platform.

The introduction marks migration from a legacy hosted infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, a cloud architecture that enables AI-enabled solutions, IOT integrations, real-time data access and retrieval.

BOHA! by TransAct is designed to help c-stores, restaurants, grocery stores and contract dining operators digitize and automate back-of-house operations, improve food safety compliance, streamline labeling workflows and optimize labor efficiency across enterprise environments.

The company also showed its BOHA! Terminal 2 food safety and FDA-compliant grab ‘n go labeling solution which includes two three-inch wide label printers with laser-quality 300-dpi. 

TransactTree Inc.

TransactTree Inc., a first-time exhibitor, demonstrated ways c-stores can transform transactional data and digital receipts into actionable customer insights to maximize customer lifetime value. The company showed how data unifications can fix upstream data issues at the POS, allowing c-stores to identify these unknown shoppers and successfully sequence repeat visits.

Features include: 

• A front-end customer experience tool designed to transition retailers from paper to encrypted digital receipts sent via text or email. 
• An omnichannel marketing and loyalty platform that uses transactional documents to create personalized post-purchase marketing opportunities.
• A headless customer data platform and omnichannel data store built to unify scattered transaction, location and product data.
• An integrated omnichannel communication platform enabling automated text, email and social media messaging based directly on real-time customer actions.

Verifone

Verifone, a provider of payments and commerce technologies, introduced several product enhancements for its convenience and retail fuel partners.  

The enhancements are part of Verifone’s unified ecosystem, which lets convenience and fuel retailers unify their operations under one cloud-connected footprint.

Enhancements include:

• Commander Convenience offers a bundled solution that manages tasks such as lotteries and loyalty integrations to digital age verification.
• Commander Fleet integrates commercial fleet card acceptance on a single POS terminal, letting truck stops and fuel stations with diesel islands run fleet and retail payments on one POS platform. The system processes fleet cards from networks like WEX, Comdata, Multi Service, Mudflap, QuikQ and Piston Technologies Inc. alongside every consumer payment type. The system eliminates the need for separate checkout hardware and overlapping software licenses, bringing every transaction into one report, so operators can reconcile fleet and retail sales together instead of pulling data from two systems.
• Commander Capital offers a merchant financing program, powered by YouLend that auto-qualifies eligible merchants based on active payment volumes and store performance. Approved funds can be deployed in as little as 24 hours to replace store equipment, invest in foodservice kiosks or refresh inventory, with automated daily repayments that flex as a small percentage of credit card sales.

The company also announced the following partnerships that extend the ecosystem’s capabilities.

• Multi Service Fuel Card adds a trucking fuel card option to the Commander Fleet portfolio.
• Mudflap brings a cardless fleet payment platform to Commander Fleet with app- and card-based payments.
• QuikQ, a fuel payment, digital payment and fraud prevention solutions provider, reduces fees and creates a direct, transparent relationship among merchants, carriers and payment providers.
• Piston Technologies Inc. brings an additional payment network to Commander Fleet, letting merchants accept Piston payments and serve its fleet customers through the Verifone platform.

Vontier

Vontier, a provider of automation and multi-energy technologies, demonstrated payments, POS, asset and fuel management solutions under its convenience retail brands, Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Veeder-Root, Invenco, DRB and Driivz, offering retailers more connected, efficient and resilient forecourt and in-store operations.

The company showcased how retailers can leverage its portfolio of integrated technologies to streamline operations, improve visibility across their businesses and create seamless consumer experiences. 

Solutions include:

• Unified payment technologies designed to improve consumer experience across the forecourt and inside the store, including Invenco’s FlexPay 6 outdoor payment terminals.
• Invenco’s Passport POS modernization solutions designed to improve transaction speed, enhance consumer experience and combat shrinkage, including integration with Mashgin’s AI-powered self-checkout to help retailers reduce friction and deliver a more seamless in-store experience.
• The Hub, a centralized platform for connecting convenience retail applications and data into a single, consistent user experience, and other asset management solutions to provide visibility and control of fueling and payment assets. Hub solutions include Veeder-Root Device Management, offering a consolidated, actionable view of Automatic Tank Gauge networks and site assets, and the Plus View app, which provides secure mobile access to tank gauge data and site information.
• DRB’car wash solutions, including the X-Start payment kiosk and its autonomous sales agent which combines payment technology with AI-powered customer engagement.

Vusion

Vusion, a provider of a connected commerce solution that digitizes physical stores and a first-time NACS exhibitor, presented its electronic shelf labels and AI technologies for connecting products, shelves and prices. The cloud technology integrates real-time shelf data and connected store technologies to automate pricing updates, reduce waste and improve on-shelf availability.

The Bluetooth-enabled shelf system ensures pricing integrity and provides aisle-level inventory and customer insights. 

The computer vision and AI-powered camera deliver real-time shelf insights that can alert staff to shelf issues to ensure each product is in the right place, improve product availability, ensure all products and categories are optimized, and ensure merchandising accuracy and store efficiency. Computer vision and shelf-level data can help identify gaps, stock mismatches, misplaced products and planogram deviations, then turn those signals into prioritized actions. 

The company’s in-store retail media supports a marketing platform that enables brands and retailers to partner on personalized digital campaigns at the shelf. 

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