News - Robotic Yogurt Kiosk, first Bitcoin Vending machine, Coca Cola Digital Signage
KIOSK Information Systems (KIOSK) will be exhibiting their newest Multifunction Money Services platform at the 2014 NRF Big Show, Booth #4101. The solution provides a holistic approach to self-service with customizable full-feature hardware, software, remote management, and services
MANTUA TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Wawa Inc.'s recently announced plan to expand availability of automated lottery kiosks in New Jersey has Garden State mom-and-pop convenience retailers worried, reported NJ.com.
Gartner's 2013 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps Out Evolving Relationship Between Humans and Machines
Krebs takes a look at simple but effective skimmer tool being employed on modern POS devices. Krebs also has resource link on "All About Skimmers". Covered as well is 3D printers and how exact they now work for skimmers.
Last week Apple stores suffered thru POS outage and were reduced to old style credit card machines according to Techcrunch. Similar outage supposedly hit NCR Silver.
Nov 4 (Reuters) - Dutch retailer RFS Holland Holding, which owns the wehkamp.nl online store, is to build what it says will be the world's largest automated online distribution centre, able to deliver 80,000 packages a day.
Analysis from Seeking Alpha on the battle between Amazon and Wal-Mart
Webinar on Cash in Self-Service and how it is used by your customers.
Discussion of strategies that retailers can take in the future to ensure their success.
Each month, Business Solutions collects and sorts through all the relevant channel news so you don't have to. This month in Point Of Sale And Payment Processing, companies announce new products, new solutions, new collaborations -- and the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announces a preview of version 3.0 standards changes.
Nice writeup on how click-and-mortar have jumped ahead in ways past the pure online, and where pure online is still winning (barely).
As consumers shift many of their purchases online, will physical retail stores even have a reason to exist? That's the difficult question AT&T T +0.43% retail executives asked themselves two years ago as they began a process to redesign and reinvent all 2,300 company-owned retail store locations in North America. Today customers in La Grange, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, will be the first to experience a new concept store AT&T leaders believe reflects the future of retail.
The automated station, featuring a rubber torso and a computer screen, measures the depth, compression rate and hand placement necessary to properly give someone CPR using only your hands.
From NRF Stores.org comes the 2013 top 100 list
The convergence of online and offline represents a big opportunity for retailers and brands that can see past the confusing threat of mobile showrooming.
The density of pedestrian traffic on the sidewalks of New York City make it an optimal place to grab attention with an eye catching or innovative store window display. For the NYC debut of their casual clothing and accessories line Kate Spade Saturday, the brand created four walk up shoppable interactive windows in formerly vacant retail stores.
After Years Giving Short Shrift to Web, Retailer Plays Catch-Up With Amazon
Asda upped the pace of its multichannel expansion with new online order kiosks and collection lockers in store as part of a trial.
Noting that shipping online orders from its 520 stores is "cheaper and quicker," Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack says the retailer is doing its best to maximize ship-from-store as a fulfillment method.
Google Chrome will now support managed public sessions
April 8, 2013 - Ensuring package control through order placement, shipping, delivery, and notification to purchaser as well as shipper, parcel delivery system employs combination of bar code tracking, cellular technologies, RFID master access, and texting or emailing. System is specifically designed to meet needs of retailers and internet companies that deal with delivery of products through central pick up point.
"LEID Products' iLibrary System is an innovative approach to extending library hours and accessibility," said Sam Hoff, president, LEID Products. "The libraries of Kentucky have already recognized benefits of using LEID's self-service solutions. Seven library districts in the state have installed our systems in multiple locations to provide better access to library materials for their patrons."
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) -- Vending machines are commonly known for dispensing snacks and sodas, but machines dispensing medical marijuana have created a buzz among California dispensaries. Over 800 items per Autospense machines. For sale or lease. San Diego is next. $60K per machine.
PharmaSmart in Rochester, NY releases whitepaper on blood pressure compliance with AAMI/ISO. Video details the features. Currently serves 6,000 locations and the study details over 8 million readings.
Article highlighting Bsquare lead developer for Intel and multiple intelligent vending products.
Last weekend, at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, toy car makers Hot Wheels, together with Chevrolet Canada and marketing firm TrojanOne, displayed Canada's first Twitter-activated promotional vending machine - aptly called "The Hot Wheels Camaro-matic Trending Machine." By tweeting the correct hash-tag, it dispensed free (if small) Camaro's to attendees.
The new system involves a touch-screen kiosk, which people use to indicate whether they are renewing tags or getting title work done. The kiosk then prints out a ticket, which is reflected on a large screen situated above the kiosk. The screen shows, with updates every five seconds, the tickets' expected waiting time.
Walmart has expanded its use of the "Scan & Go" iPhone app from a single-store test to 40 locations in the Denver area. Shoppers who download the app can scan items with their phones as they walk the aisles of the store. When they're finished, they select "done shopping" and the app creates a unique QR code that is read at a self-checkout station where the customer chooses a payment option to complete the transaction, according to published reports.
Drexel University vending machines dispense Macbooks to students
New marijuana autoretail automated retail dispensing machine come to Washington and soon Colorado. Stock price of company thru the roof.
One of our intrepid reports caught a shot of this.
Supply chain directors need an innovative mindset to meet the challenges posed by the multichannel retail landscape.
Interview with John Belcher of ARINC. Belcher is charting ARINC's next moves, which will be primarily aimed at the commercial travel industry. On Tuesday, ARINC's parent company, The Carlyle Group, agreed to sell ARINC's Defense Systems Engineering and Support division to Booz Allen Hamilton for $154 million.
SEOUL, KOREA - Since Steve Jobs first unveiled Internet-based smartphones that integrated music, video, a camera, computer, and even GPS navigator, few would deny that the convergence of mobile devices have brought about a paradigm shift in the way we work and live. You may wonder now what will come next following the smart society. Se-kyong Song, CEO of Future Robot is confident that we will be moving into the robotics era, where human and robots co-exist, over the course of the next decades. "When it comes to the potential of robot convergence, it cannot be compared to smartphones. As almost all electronics can be integrated into robotics with human-robot interaction (HRI) technologies, the convergence is essentially limitless."
Boulder-based minuteKEY, a maker of self-service machines to copy house keys, has raised an additional $10 million in funding, according to documents filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By November, Tennessee residents needing to renew or replace their driver's licenses could be going to their local library, police precinct or county clerk's office and using a self-service kiosk instead of one of the driver service centers.
10,000 Square-Foot Space Showcases What Consumers Can Do With AT&T Products, Innovations and Wireless Technology
LAS VEGAS--Airlines are laying the groundwork for the next big step in the increasingly automated airport experience: a trip from the curb to the plane without interacting with a single airline employee.