Connected Vending Machines is the second consecutive report from Berg Insight analysing the latest developments on the vending telemetry and cashless payment market worldwide. This strategic research report from Berg Insight provides you with 70 pages of unique business intelligence including 5-year
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A total of 3.6 million vending machines will be online by 2020. Crane is the leader.
Here’s a paradox you don’t hear much about: despite a century of creating machines to do our work for us, the proportion of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the past 125 years. Why hasn’t human labor become redundant and our skills obsolete?
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In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor addresses the question of why there are still so many jobs and comes up with a surprising, hopeful answer.
Early in a yearlong test run for Anytime Valet, a first-time user opened the delivery kiosk looking for a package and also found spider webs.
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Currently the company has six Anytime Valet locations in central Arkansas. Eventually, Cassady envisions the delivery hubs being of great use to large online retailers. Cutting down on the locations where retailers are sending packages will save them money. Fewer delivery points mean more efficiency for carriers and less cost for shippers.
How software, automated kiosks, and armored trucks are changing the cannabis industry.
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KIND is not the only software and/or compliance company to be thinking about cannabis kiosks—Jane and KioWare are two other companies that also want to use automated kiosks as a solution to the cannabis industry’s financial problems. Even Jamaica’s Cannabis Licensing Authority is on the kiosk train and wants to install weed kiosks in Jamaica’s airports. Yet with KIND’s recent partnership with Microsoft to provide cannabis tracking solutions for governments, Dinenberg thinks that KIND definitely has the leg up on competition.
It’s that time when market watchers make predictions about the new year. I have often made such forecasts with mixed results. So I’m going to try something different this year.
Here are five questions about in-store technology that PG readers can ponder, and then make their own predictions:
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New stores from Nike, Adidas are leading the future of retail.
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Nike and Adidas both opened new New York City stores this fall that are designed to immerse shoppers in the experience and give them a reason to return. The Nike store encourages shoppers to try out shoes on its basketball court and soccer zone, and Adidas has set up stations for customizing apparel and seating areas for watching sporting events.
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Target, the third largest retailer in the US, is gearing up for its move into mobile tech with a new update to its flagship iPhone app. The new update is a
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Still haven’t seen any useful or piloting “experiences” here in Colorado retail. So far all sizzle and no steak.
“While Sears was once a titan of U.S. retail, it now looks set to sink,” Saunders wrote in an email to Retail Dive. “We do not make these claims lightly, but only on the back of the evidence available. First, the top line has been in decline for as long as anyone can remember. Comparable sales have been on the slide for just over 11 years. This quarter shows no sign of even the mildest of improvements.”
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As Sears continues to close stores, Saunders said many malls will be faced with hardship, unless they can replace those locations with better performing retailers. Rivals like J.C. Penney, which is already taking market share from Sears in appliances, could continue to benefit from Sears’ woes.
