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Canberra cafe deploys Amazon’s Just Walk Out tech in Southern Hemisphere first

Inside Retail

The technology uses advanced artificial intelligence technologies including computer vision, deep learning and generative AI to create a frictionless shopping experience and maintain security. Many students living on the CIT Bruce Campus lack easy access to nearby shopping.

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The perfect brew: Vittoria’s Food & Beverage MD talks expanding DTC

Inside Retail

We’re actually about to relaunch our Vittoria website to make it a much more engaging shopping experience, so that’ll come to market in the next few months. We looked at a range of propositions for online customers, we introduced things like subscriptions to our website, which has been really successful.

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Top 12 Food & Beverage Trade Shows in North America

Trade Group

Deemed an “essential business,” these businesses remained open but had to manage increased health and safety regulations for employees and customers, a sudden uptick in online shopping and demand for curbside and home delivery, and volatile supply chains (which also impacted bars, restaurants, and hotels).

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Showfields and the bankruptcy of the ‘most interesting store in the world’

Inside Retail

The retailer used RetailNext’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to measure consumers’ shopping journeys through the store anonymously, gathering data such as sales figures, traffic figures, customers’ gender and more. Can Showfields make a comeback?

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Plum Market Debuts in Florida

VMS

Notes of local culture bring a fresh perspective to the shopping environment, the grocer said in a news release. We look forward to being the premier retailer for all natural, organic and locally sourced foods, beverages and lifestyle essentials here in the neighborhood,” Matt Jonna, Plum Market’s CEO and Co-Founder said in the release.

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Meet Gen Alpha, the kids and tweens already influencing purchase decisions

Inside Retail

The last decade has seen the consumer landscape shift from mass market to personalisation and customisation, from a life of bricks-and-mortar shopping to online goods. Artificial intelligence, smart devices and robotics will also have an impact on the online shopping experience. per cent of the global consumer economy.

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Why Thailand’s booming medical marijuana industry faces an uncertain future

Inside Retail

Cannabis shops have popped up in many Bangkok neighbourhoods, along with mobile dispensaries and street stalls, and the government’s official app for registering growers and sellers has had a reported 32 million visits so far.