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Harvey Nichols customers use iPads to unlock product content in store

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As well as providing an enhanced shopping experience, it enables retailers to collect data on customer behaviour in store prior to checkout. After leaving the store, predictive models use this data to increase customer engagement and sales. Based on their clients’ objectives, they can drive purchases online or drive customers back to the store.


The trial has also been going on in London at Heals, Made & Dwell and DropDead.

Pharmabox Rolls Out Automated Drugstore, Filling Void In Underserved Communities

MIAMI — Pharmabox Inc. said it’s shipping the first of its first self-service kiosks that carry more than 140 items typically found in a local pharmacy. Pharmabox creator and company chief executive Alejandro Rodríguez Espinoza said he wanted to find a way to get name-brand products into communities that are underserved by brick and mortar stores. After two years of research and development, the Pharmabox was born.

Source: www.vendingtimes.com

Pharmabox reportedly offers well-known personal care products and over-the-counter medicines at the same or lower prices than those found at most stores. Featured brands include Tylenol, Vicks, Advil, Ben Gay, Pepto Bismol, Colgate, Gillette, Tampax and Band-Aid.

VendRx Inc. Patent Issued for Innovative Physician Dispensing Kiosk

SALT LAKE CITY, March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — VendRx Inc., a provider of the first fully configurable in-office physician dispensing solution, today announced its first patent has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2014, VendRx successfully built and deployed its first automated dispensing system that seamlessly delivers prescriptions to patients in California. The next generation system is scheduled for deployment in the second quarter of 2015.  VendRx has been under development for 4 years and is currently in the final stages of testing.

“With VendRx, physicians will be able to better serve their patients while generating additional revenue with no added labor costs,” said Trent Jefferies, CEO at VendRx.  “Our patented solution eliminates physician storage and handling of prescription medications and the associated labor and security risks. We customize the inventory to fit the practice utilization. When the patient conveniently elects in-office dispensing, the physician electronically prescribes the medication and VendRx seamlessly handles the rest.”

Today, physician dispensing is allowed in some form in all states except for New York.  VendRx is easy-to-use, physician- and patient-friendly, and provides a secure alternative to “file-cabinet” medication dispensing. “Patients and physicians appreciate the speed and convenience of VendRx.  Not only will patients begin their prescription treatment more quickly, but we believe that VendRx will ultimately  help improve medication adherence.”

In 2013, retail prescription drug spending grew 2.5 percent to $271.1 billion, compared to 0.5 percent growth in 2012. According to CMS,1 the faster growth in 2013 resulted from price increases for brand-name and specialty drugs, increased spending on new medicines, and increased utilization. VendRx makes lower-cost medication alternatives readily available to patients before they leave the physician office. The company also plans to explore installation of VendRx kiosks in pharmacies as a means for patients to quickly obtain recurring medications that may not require pharmacist intervention or counseling.

About VendRx

VendRx supplies the patented VendRx in-office physician dispensing kiosk that fully automates dispensing pre-packaged pharmaceuticals. VendRx has a sleek profile, and is designed to occupy the space of approximately two waiting room chairs. The service provides a proprietary dispensing machine that is designed with a real-time flexible formulary that fits the practice and generates transaction-based revenue with no incremental labor requirements.

1 https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/Downloads/highlights.pdf

Media Contact:
David Frey
President, VendRx Inc.
801-381-0930
[email protected]

 

SOURCE VendRx Inc.

US retailers fear they’ll miss EMV transition deadline | PaymentEye

A US trade group is asking the payment-card industry to delay the October EMV transition plan that will leave the retail food stores and pharmacies it represents liable for fraudulent transactions if they are unable to meet the deadline.

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FMI sent letter to VISA/MC asking for 2016. Retail food stores and pharmacies will not be able to meet 2015 deadline.

Along with the cost of updating their equipment, merchants face a 16-week delay for delivery of EMV-enabled card readers, the letter said. The group of American retailers also fears that the introduction of chip cards will cause larger checkout queues during the run up to the holiday season.