self-checkout systems

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" ...

Toshiba spotlights new innovations for empowering retail

Showcasing its latest solutions, services and innovative concepts at hall 9 booth B42

Visitors to EuroCIS 2019 will learn at Toshiba's booth how every retailer can design his checkout to suit his and the customers' needs. Under the motto "Empowering the Art of Retail", Toshiba will present its end-to-end IT ...

Store transformation drives self-service technology

Self-checkout solutions at EuroCIS 2019

The annual “Global EPOS and Self-Checkout” report care of London-based market research and consulting firm RBR shows what is happening around the globe at self-service checkouts. According to the report, retailers worldwide ...

The new connection: Mobile payment via electronic shelf labels

Interview with Alexander Hahn from digital payment service provider Wirecard

It’s a customer’s dream: no more waiting in line at the checkout counter. At this point, consumers can already scan their purchases with their smartphones, pay and leave the store. Wirecard collaborates with SES-imagotag and makes this ...

Allgeier’s Retail Solution of the Future

The IoT BoxX - a pop-up store fully integrated into SAP

Like hardly any other industry, the retail sector is being exposed to the challenges of technological change. On the one hand, important market shares were lost to online trading, and on the other hand, the online stores are now blazing their trail ...

RFID tags with features for the cashierless store

Customers can unlock products on their own thanks to smart tags

China and the U.S. already feature cashierless stores but things are coming along in Europe, too. Several startup companies want to eliminate long checkout lines and advertise better retail security tags. We took a closer look at these ...

Standard cognition opens San Francisco’s first public cashierless store

Consumers can shop and pay without scanning or stopping to check out

Standard Cognition, which is eliminating the hassle of retail checkout by removing it entirely, announced today that it has opened San Francisco’s first public cashierless store. Located at 1071 Market Street, the Standard Market ...

Payment solutions in the self-service market

CCV and PAX are forming a joint venture

CCV, one of the largest payment service providers and suppliers of payment solutions in Europe, and PAX Technology Limited, subsidiary of PAX Global Technology Limited (“PAX Global”) (Stock Code: 00327.HK), one of the leading electronic ...

App-based self-checkout

Edeka offers mobile self-scanning with snabble

Snabble introduces its technology to the stores of Edeka Rhein-Ruhr. Customers will be able to scan items with their smartphone while shopping and pay at payment-terminals at the exit. First store launched will be Edeka Paschmann in ...

No-checkout store of the future: Successful retail projects

Fine-tuning of the major rollouts has also started in Germany

Robots as sales consultants, REWE’s self-checkout at the neighborhood store or digital price tags. Slowly but surely, customers get used to and increasingly accept these innovative supermarket concepts. But are customers ready to take the next ...

German retailer roll-out of NCR self-checkouts

Kaufland creates new flexibility for changing customer shopping habits

NCR Corporation, a global leader in omni-channel solutions, announced that its self-checkout solution is a key part of Kaufland’s store reinvention initiative. The German hypermarket chain embarked on a store transformation journey to help ...

Make it easy: Optimizing the checkout process

If everything runs smoothly here, customers and retailers are happy: at the checkout. This requires the best technologies. These can be seen at EuroCIS.

Customers should be able to finish their shopping as comfortably as possible. Contactless and mobile payment as well as self-checkout can contribute to this. The possibilities for retailers have evolved extremely quickly. EuroCIS shows the ...

4POS presents new POS hardware at EuroCIS 2018

POS hardware using notebook technology and modular self-checkout

The requirements for efficient POS solutions are constantly growing. Modular construction methods and a slim design are demanded like never before. In the interview with iXtenso, Rolf Thomann and Günter Baitz from 4POS explain the requirements ...

Stores intelligently connected

Checkpoint showcases a Source-to-Shopper journey at EuroCIS 2018

At EuroCIS 2018, Checkpoint exhibits solutions that fit into four core areas – software, hardware, consumables and services. Retailers visiting the show will be able to explore how the vendor’s unique technologies will help reduce ...

Explore DataVan’s latest revolutionary retail solutions at EuroCIS 2018

Self-checkout, universal tablet docking, and lightweight POS terminals

DataVan, one of the world’s leading retail and hospitality touch-point technology providers, is pleased to join EuroCIS 2018 in Düsseldorf to showcase its new range of self-service kiosk terminals, multi-purpose touchscreen terminals, and ...

NCR is saying goodbye to the infamous “unexpected item in the bagging area”

NCR celebrates the 20th anniversary of its self-checkout and gives a glimpse of future innovations

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in omni-channel solutions, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its first self-checkout installation and looking at what the future will bring for the technology. Amongst others, NCR is tackling the ...

Retail of the future: technologies for a smart customer journey

Video report shows trends of EuroCIS 2018

The customer is the focus of tomorrow's Customer Journey. Retailers can use interactive, virtual and personalized offers to attract and inspire customers at home, especially in the digital age. We have tried out the latest technologies in the ...

4POS SCO-400 EveryPLACE

Where is EveryPLACE?

... in all places where your customers are, when they register and pay for their own purchases. 4POS has developed the 4POS SCO-400 EveryPLACE, a self-checkout solution which is highly responsive to the needs of customer-centric ...

“Just walk out“: the invisible payment process

Pay automatically with zero-click payment and smart store technologies

Retailers are constantly looking for solutions that make payments easier and more automated. After all, an easy payment process also makes it easier to spend money, at least when it comes to small amounts and quantities. According to a study by ...

The self-checkout paradox – faster or slower?

Shopping experience feels faster and more efficient even if actual time takes a bit longer

One of the biggest benefits with self-checkouts is that the process feels faster and more convenient. The customers are more prone to leave the store with a smile after a few more minutes by the self-checkouts than after a shorter amount of time ...

Retail self-checkout systems hold untapped potential

Fundamental willingness to use self-checkout systems is distinctly greater than the actual percentage of users

Germans mostly know self-checkout systems (SCO) from their visits to IKEA. Yet by now, supermarkets and some drug store chains have also started to let customers scan their own products. Even so, both customers and retailers continue to be ...

7 reasons why self-checkout is beneficial

More efficiency and better profits for the store

Many stores already have a system for self-service checkout, but just as many still cling to the cashier system. In this article, we list seven reasons why self-service checkouts are winning over the traditional staffed tills. They are simply more ...

Smart scanning solutions

Zebra Technologies at EuroShop 2017

Zebra Technologies is a company well known for always staying right at the front - continually improving existing products in a wide range to enable retailers to remain at the cutting edge in their capacity to serve their customers. ...

Toshiba enables brilliant commerce at EuroShop 2017

Toshiba to demonstrate new innovative retail solutions in Hall 6, Stand C41

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. and its parent organization, Toshiba TEC Corporation (TTEC), will showcase a broad variety of retail solutions in Hall 6, Stand C41 during EuroShop, the world’s No. 1 retail trade fair, held 5 – 9 ...

New research shows NCR leads in self-checkout and EPOS technology

NCR grows share of self-checkout shipments in key markets

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) leads the world in self-checkout (SCO) technology, according to research published by strategic research and consulting firm RBR. NCR, the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, saw shipment growth in key ...

NCR and Re-Vision give shoppers a more convenient checkout experience

Reinventing the checkout experience through the introduction of NCR’s FastLane Mobile Shopper powered by Re-Vision

This innovative new application gives retailers the ability to offer consumers a scan-as-you-shop option using either a store-provided device or the consumer’s own iOS or Android mobile phone. After scanning each of their items, the consumer ...