This week, at NRF’s Big Show, Toshiba and NCR presented scannless self-checkouts that use computer vision and AI to automatically identify multiple products simultaneously, so-called ‘bulk scanning’. Toshiba’s MxP Vision Kiosk and the NCR Voyix Halo Checkout, which works with product recognition software from Everseen, aim to enable a fast and convenient checkout.
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Belgian Colruyt Group has started to equip stores of its Okay, Okay Compact and Spar Colruyt Group banners with self-checkout systems. The retailer is purchasing the devices from Toshiba, configured to the retail group's own specifications. The design of the self-checkouts, which Toshiba sells in a similar design as the ‘TCx Smart Wing’ product in Europe, comes from Dutch specialist…
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While NCR Voyix (formerly NCR) continues to lead the ranking of all new POS software installations not only in the USA, but worldwide, European challengers GK and Flooid are achieving respectable successes in the number one’s US home market. According to the recently published Global POS Software 2023GK accounts for over a quarter of all new POS software installations in…
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Despite the growing number of competitors in the market for POS hardware, the largest global vendors HP, NCR, Toshiba and also Diebold Nixdorf were able to defend their market shares steady in 2022, with NCR even growing by two percentage points.
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Again, Amazon is putting the world of in-store technology in a state of awe. This time with Dash Cart, a shopping trolley that automatically logs products placed inside. It will have its first appearance it the soon-to-be opened first 3,000-square-metre Amazon supermarket in Woodland Hills. It is likely that Amazon will also equip its Wholefood Stores with the new checkout…
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In addition to new tax law requirements, the temporary reduction in value-added tax poses major challenges for the retail trade in Germany With the temporary reduction of the value-added tax, the German government wants to stimulate the economy. However, this will create a gigantic expense for the retail trade in Germany, which is probably out of all proportion to the…
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