365 Retail Markets Reaches Wireless Milestone With OptConnect | Articles | Vending Times

KAYSVILLE, UT -– OptConnect Managed Wireless Solutions said that in fewer than 18 months, 365 Retail Markets has connected more than 5,000 OptConnect cellular units in its micromarket applications across the U.S. Keysville, UT-based OptConnect’s wireless technology allows new devices to be deployed rapidly, without any need to connect to the location’s existing network connection. This helps to ensure a more reliable network with improved uptime and security without the IT hassle, or delays, accordin

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Walmart has acquired the logistics startup Parcel to help launch same-day delivery in New York City

The deal was small but key to Walmart’s new express delivery service.

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Parcel sends order updates to its merchant clients and their customers in real time via text messages. The startup has also compiled a database of every New York City building it has delivered to, including photos and detailed information on service entrances.  The merging of business and consumer channels.

Supreme Court Rejects Coca-Cola Case on Vending Machine ADA Compliance

The case, titled Magee v. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, was brought by Emmett Magee, a blind man from Louisiana who invoked the ADA in suing Coca Cola because its glass-front vending machines made it impossible for him to know what product he was choosing and at what price. He was thwarted buying soda from vending machines at a hospital and a bus station.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit turned away his claim, ruling that vending machines are “not a physical place open to public access” and therefore don’t fit the definition of “public accommodations” that are required to abide by the ADA. It also said that the hospital and the bus stations were public accommodations and “may very well” bear some responsibility to make vending machines on their premises accessible to the disabled.

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Electronic Parcel Lockers for Parcel Carriers – American Locker

  The dramatic expansion of the eCommerce landscape calls for innovation in the way post and parcel industry is operating. Besides this, there are several other factors like the continuously growing numbers of middle-class consumers, increasing urbanization, globally higher standards of living, etc., which make it imperative to revisit current logistics. In such scenarios, electronic …

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Pitch piece (decent) by American Locker