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Retail vision, logistics, & supplies in 2030
Perspectives for Food in 2030 by Dr. Gerd Wolfram – Managing Director MGI METRO Group Information Technology A vision for the future of retailing by Metro Group. http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2007/food2030/docs/food-2030-gerd-wolfram_en.pdf [pdf]
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Smart Info Terminal from Future Store
Interactive terminals and tasting stations turn daily shopping into an experience to savor. Terminals offer additional information like detailed nutritional values, seasonal recipes, and videos. Customers can also check the precise origin of products, breeding methods, and packaging. For quick navigation the Information Terminal is connected to the Everywhere Display –a projector which shows the [...]
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Is this how we will shop in a couple of years?
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Smart Check Out
What will payment systems in shops look like in the future. This video shows us how it should work. When this level of service is mainstream, will we laugh when we look back to today, when every item needed to be scanned separately? You be the judge.
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Intava Smart Merchandising System
Intava’s latest-generation Smart Merchandising System empowers shoppers to compare dozens of products and receive personalized recommendations–all on a simple, fun touch-screen surface. By providing detailed product information during the point of decision, Intava’s Smart Merchandising System helps develop informed, engaged and active shoppers from the moment they use the system. The system provides five key [...]
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Intelligentz & Ubisense deliver CartMotion
Intelligentz Corporation and Ubisense have partnered to deliver a revolutionary solution for retail stores. The CartMotion product combines Ubisense’s precise real-time location system (RTLS) with Intelligentz’s analytical engine. The valuable data provided on consumer behavior, conversion rate and asset management enables retailers to improve sales conversion, productivity and customer service. “The CartMotion application required a [...]
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Senso Smart Fitting Room
Shopping by SENSO. Smart Fitting Rooms and Smart Shelves as well as service via mobile devices and internet are revolutionizing our future buying habits. Smart Fitting Rooms are available today in Senso’s most advanced retail stores. For further intformation, visit sensosolutions.com
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IDTechEx forecasts rise of RFID phones
IDTechEx forecasts that, while the yearly number of mobile phones sold rises from one to two billion in the next few years, the number of RFID enabled phones sold will rise from 134 million in 2008 to 860 million in 2018, mostly all of this is happening in East Asia. East Asians will continue to [...]
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Microsoft thinks smart with MediaCarts
Microsoft and Media Cart Holdings Inc will help turn customers at ShopRite grocery stores into smart shoppers. The technology being touted is RFID enabled ‘MediaCarts’ which are reportedly being rolled out soon. Inbuilt RFID technology identifies the location of the cart in the store, and coupled with relevant shopping history delivers pertinent communications such as [...]
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Not so smart facial recognition machine
The Japanese want to ensure that their young citizens cannot purchase cigarettes from cigarette vending machines have come up with an RFID based vending machine with facial recognition software. More than 570,000 cigarette vending machines were fitted with RFID readers so that their age verification cards could be checked before cigarettes were dispensed to them. [...]
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