self-checkout systems

retail salsa Tech Talks – Industry discussion live for the first time from EuroCIS 2022

Hot topics of the retail tech industry: automation & AI, smart stores, interactive touchpoints

After one and a half years of successful webtalks in the format "retail salsa – Spice up your Community", we took the EuroCIS 2022, which took place again from 31.05.-02.06. after a pandemic break, as an opportunity to organize the ...

EuroCIS 2022 exceeds expectations

Propensity to invest in technology as high as ever in retail – mood in the exhibition halls positive

EuroCIS 2022, The Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology, has drawn to a close on Thursday (2 June 2022) in Düsseldorf with very good results. With its ranges it impressively underlined how the past two pandemic years...

Smart Stores: Fast shopping on the go

Live from EuroCIS: The kitchen help among stores

Hungry for a delicious dish, but not much time? Using a food processor saves time here and offers endless possibilities to satisfy your appetite. It’s the same with Smart Stores: scan the goods and pack them without having to stand in line. Or ...

retail trends 1/2022: Focus "EuroCIS 2022"

The latest issue with tips, ideas and trends for and from the retail technology industry

In our latest retail trends, we show you once again what's driving the industry: You can expect photo spreads from international stores, reports on trend topics such as "visual search", "livestream shopping" and ...

Pete’s of Erie adopts self-checkout solutions for convenience stores

“Busy stores create new challenges in the shopping experience”

Pete’s of Erie Inc., a convenience store retailer with 50 stores across Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, has selected Gilbarco Veeder-Root's Passport® Express Lane™ self-checkout system to elevate the overall customer experience ...

EuroCIS 2022: Trending topics and innovations concerning Retail Technology

Customer Centricity, Analytics, Payment, Connected Retail and Seamless Store

EuroCIS, The Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology, held from 31 May to 2 June 2022 in Halls 9 and 10 of Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre is the international communication forum for innovations and trend themes, especially for technology in the ...

More convenience and control at the checkout

With flexible self-service solutions from Toshiba, today as well as tomorrow customers have a choice when paying

The demands on retailers can change quickly. The last two years have shown that government regulations as well as customer expectations have made it necessary to constantly rethink and adapt store operations. ...

Food retail: from self-scanning to autonomous stores

EuroCIS from 31 May to 02 June 2022 in Düsseldorf presents current technology trends

When Amazon opened the first cashierless "Amazon Go" store to the general public in 2018, most experts in Europe were unanimous in their assessment: a highly exciting, technologically very ambitious project that a company like Amazon can ...

Scan & Go is a multi-talented tool for retailers and customers

How to use the smartphones of your consumers for convenience, sales and marketing

On March 16th, we prepared another spicy meal for you as a tasting sample about the options, benefits and challenges of Scan & Go services. With many poignant questions of our audience and the valuable and current input of our experts, ...

Scan & Go: Attractive marketing tool and queue stopper

Tune in NOW! – Webtalk "retail salsa" about scanning solutions

Scan the goods yourself with your smartphone: This is the new freedom for customers. No more cumbersome “out of the cart, onto the conveyor belt, and back down again”. Goodbye to queues. This is not just a hot topic because there’s ...

"Amazon Go" or "Amazon No"?

Our iXtenso editor tested a “just-walk-out store” from Amazon in Chicago

Is Amazon's ambitious "Amazon Go" project quietly going under? Or is it about to catch on and become ubiquitous? I tried to find answers to these questions at a store in Chicago.  ...

Creative newcomers present innovative IT-solutions specifically for retail

Start-up Hub at EuroCIS 2022, the Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology

EuroCIS from 15 to 17 February 2022, will again be the hotspot for latest-generation retail technology. For the third time now it will stage the Start-up Hub thereby offering young companies ideal possibilities for making first contacts with ...

Digital allrounder: from price tags to self-checkout

q.beyond invests in self-checkout specialist Snabble

q.beyond AG is acquiring a 25.4-percent stake in Snabble GmbH. Snabble has already demonstrated the functionality and market maturity of its proprietary scan-&-go solution at major retailers such as IKEA, TeeGschwendner and tegut. This new ...

No cash register - no waiting in line

First unattended scan & go store in Australia

Wolki Farm in Australia has opened its first unattended store with Scan & Go from FutureProof Retail (FPR).Customers download FPR's Express Checkout app and enter the store with a PIN. They then simply scan their items with the app, bag ...

The smart store revolution is heating up!

What makes unmanned 24/7 store concepts so appealing?

Whether unmanned stores, vending machines or hybrid solutions – automated smart stores have evolved from mere sounding balloons into genuine shopping alternatives. Even in Germany, where new technologies are initially viewed critically by ...

Unmanned stores: One idea, many concepts

How can customers shop 24/7?

Shopping, around the clock, without staff, with self-checkout option – the idea behind unmanned stores is always the same, the approach can be different.The company Wanzl has developed various concepts. iXtenso took a look at them at ...

How do technologies find their way into retail?

Rolf Schumann, CDO of the Schwarz Group, provides answers at the "Retail Innovation Days"

Tech is cool! Gimmicks, gadgets, gizmos – they impress and inspire quickly. However, it often takes much longer than technology experts and developers initially predict before the technologies actually arrive in everyday life and are used by ...

Checkout-free hotel convenience store in Yokohama, Japan

Using biometric authentication technology

Zippin announced the launch of its latest retail format: a hotel convenience store. Zippin's partner, Fujitsu, the leading systems integrator in Japan, has worked with Koyo Group to implement the world's first checkout-free store within a ...

Swiss Brand On's new flagship store

New standards for retail?

Swiss performance running brand On opens its global flagship store today, On NYC, located at 363 Lafayette Street in New York, NY. On has pioneered a design-centric and technologically driven approach to the in-store consumer experience. Centered ...

Klarna starts cooperation with Verifone

The idea: a shopping experience in stores that is unique worldwide

Klarna, the leading global payments and shopping service, announces a strategic partnership with Verifone, a global leader in payments and commerce solutions, that will make Klarna available as the first-ever buy now pay later solution to millions ...

Checkout-free service at Giant Eagle’s GetGo Café+Market store

Retrofitting an existing store

Grabango announced the launch of commercial service with one of its retail partners, Giant Eagle, Inc, owner of GetGo Café+Market. Grabango’s checkout-free system is now available to save shoppers time by letting them skip the line. The ...

“Dear shopping cart, please show me the way!“

Shopping Cart 2.0 – gimmick or idea with intrinsic value?

Not all shopping carts are the same... far from it! Digitization and automation also put their stamp on this aspect of the retail sector. What’s usually a plain, large basket on wheels that makes it easier for shoppers to transport products ...

Digitalization in the german wholesale industry

METRO Companion App

Retailers have embraced digitalization to enhance the customer experience for many years. Examples of the growing digital transformation market include self-checkouts, omnichannel marketing, and electronic shelf labels. Customer apps are also ...

Contactless? Cross-channel? Consumer-friendly?

Things to look for in a payment solution

Whether it’s e-commerce, point of sale, or mobile payment: we have to pay for our purchase. But what do customers want and expect from a payment solution? How can retailers meet these expectations and are self-checkouts really a faster option ...

Consumer survey: social distancing is changing shopping habits

Touchless or self-checkout options preferred for instore shopping during COVID-19 pandemic

Nearly two-thirds of consumers are changing their grocery shopping habits in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent consumer survey from Shekel, pioneers in advanced weighing technologies. And 87 percent of shoppers say ...

Saving time and money: More POS systems

Saving you time, energy, and space – Traditional checkouts are so yesterday. "Multi Device" is the new way to go

Mobile or hybrid point-of-sale systems are the latest must-have technology and a major trend right now. Rolf Thomann, CEO of the Swiss company 4POS AG explains why retailers increasingly rely on them and describes the many key features and ...

Self-Service for the ultimate customer experience

EuroShop 2020: iXtenso spoke with Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf as a leader in connected commerce offers innovative technologies for the optimized mix of self-service and checkout systems. With the program Storerevolution™ their solutions are a benefit for customers and retailers at the ...

The cash register capable of everything

Flexible use from manned checkout to self-checkout point

Customers walking through the store with their own cash register on hand? This versatility of shop technology and shop fittings corresponds to the change in brick and mortar retail. MAGO wants to help retailers to meet this challenge with ...

Toshiba demonstrates the future of shopping at EuroShop 2020

Toshiba spotlights innovations enabling retailers to create “moments that inspire”

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions offers EuroShop 2020 attendees a look into the future via its ‘Frictionless Store’, Feb. 16-20, hall 6 booth C41 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Toshiba’s innovative solutions enable retailers to ...

Effective and Independent

Present and future of self-checkout

Better use of personnel, lowering overhead costs while still providing customers with a smooth and seamless shopping experience – that’s what every retailer strives to accomplish. For Thomas Dibbern, CEO of ALMEX GmbH, there is an ...

Toshiba bolsters point-of-sale performance with latest Intel technology

9th generation Intel® Core™ processor enhances retailer operations and customer experience

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions continues to empower retailers and enhance the customer experience by integrating Intel’s latest processor technology within its global point-of-sale (POS) systems. The 9th Generation Intel® Core™ ...

Self-service for faster checkout

“Moments that Inspire”: Toshiba shows at EuroShop stationary as well as mobile solutions

In the future, there will be the Frictionless Store – no scanning, no hassle for the consumers. But consumers do not want to wait until this can become reality everywhere. The payment process should already be fast and convenient today.At ...

When customers become cashiers

Treading a fine line between traditional and visionary, between checkouts and codes

For years, we have done this in online stores: we fill our shopping cart, click to pay and are excited about our purchase. Thanks to the snabble app - now available at the Knauber Hobbymarkt in Bonn and at IKEA in Frankfurt – consumers can ...

The iXtenso editors tested self-scanning ...

... with an app of the Hobbymarkt Knauber in Bonn, Germany

Snabble has developed a payment app that allows customers to scan their purchases in retail stores and pay online. I wondered: How does it work?The app is in use in the Bonn DIY and hobby market Knauber, among other places. Let’s make a move ...

retail trends 3/2019: focus "checkout zone"

Shopfitting, technology, marketing: What does a checkout have to do nowadays?

Read our latest edition retail trends 3-2019 online as an e-paper. ...

The 411 on point of sale systems

Beauty and intelligence combined: What the system looks like and what it can do

Checkout system, material, paint finish – apart from technology and design, today’s point of sale system must fulfill many different roles. Yet its most important function is and will always be the successful completion of the customer ...

Strategic partnership in Brazil for new checkout-free stores

Zippin and Lojas Americanas: national roll-out underway

Zippin announced it has entered a strategic partnership with Brazil's largest retailer, Lojas Americanas S.A., to deploy its checkout-free technology in stores across the country. Though its innovation vertical, "IF – ...

When the product becomes the POS

“Mobile-first” or the future of the Point of Sale

The classic Point of Sale means physical sales areas including a terminal, cash systems and queues. But this traditional image is changing. Nowadays many customers in brick-and-mortar retail outlets expect the same experience as online and require ...

Cameras, comfort and Artificial Intelligence

Video: What self-checkout systems can already offer today

Self-checkout systems are enjoying ever greater acceptance and are regarded as an important future topic for retailers and customers. ...

Toshiba: artificial intelligence for frictionless shopping

AI, edge computing and smart shelf technology at the EuroCIS 2019

retail trends 1/2019: focus "Retail Technology"

Omnichannel commerce, mobile shopping, seamless checkout – technology trends 2019

Would you like to find out about the latest retail technologies and hold something tangible in your hands at the same time?We'll be happy to send you a copy of our print edition retail trends: with the focus on "Retail Technology" ...