Australia retail stores add self-service checkout

April 20, 2008

News.com.au: Woolworths and Safeway supermarkets will soon have self-service checkouts at more than 70 stores around Australia by the end of June. The…

Start-up company offers product search kiosks for retail customers

April 17, 2008

CNET.com:  OK, so Google dominates the market for online search and accompanying advertisements. But what about people trying to find what they need in a…

The man behind KioskCom

The head of Self Service Expo and The Digital Signage Show talks.

New MEI toolkit speeds integration time of kiosk cash acceptors

April 10, 2008

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Cash transactions cost retailers far less than the average two percent fee incurred from signature debit and credit transactions. MEI has…

Turnkey self-service store may employ RFID instead of people

April 9, 2008

RFID Journal: Food retail research and consulting company Food Information Service Europe is in discussion with retailers in the Netherlands and Belgium to…

3D video kiosks installed in the U.S.

April 3, 2008

CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Provision Interactive Technologies has announced its 3DEO Reward Centers are now available in the United States. The kiosks are currently…

Fiserv offers self-service billpay at ReadySTATION kiosks

March 26, 2008

BROOKFIELD, Wis. — CheckFreePay, now part of Fiserv Inc., has signed a deal with Ready Credit Corp. to implement the CheckFreePay walk-in bill payment service…

Europe, Middle East, Asia POS grows while U.S. slows, study says

March 24, 2008

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — The PC-based electronic point-of-sale market in Europe/Middle East/Africa experienced a 4 percent shipment increase in 2007 and continues to…

GlobalShop: Smell machine may make scents for retail

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

March 17, 2008

CHICAGO — Today was opening day for GlobalShop 2008, the 16th installment of the trade show devoted to store design, visual merchandising and in-store…

HP to add photo kiosks in India

March 16, 2008

The (Mumbai, India) Business Standard: Hewlett-Packard Retail Photo Solutions has announced it plans to launch photo-printing and imaging kiosks at retail…

Retail RFID solution to aid sales, decrease labor costs

March 12, 2008

HICKORY, N.C. — Freedom Shopping Inc., a consumer RFID solution provider, has announced the availability of a retail offering that plugs into existing cash…

NCR to deploy self-checkout in Lithuania

March 5, 2008

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Self-checkout has arrived in Lithuania, courtesy of NCR Corp. and its reseller NEW VISION. IKI, Lithuania's second largest retail grocery…

Fujitsu releases new self-checkout graphical user interface

February 28, 2008

FRISCO, Texas — Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. has announced the availability of its redesigned self-checkout graphical user interface, built on Microsoft…

CFM introduces personal grocery shopping assistant

February 25, 2008

EDINA, Minn. — Touch ‘n Save is a personal grocery shopping assistant that can explain the different cuts of meat, help plan a menu, provide recipes, print…

N.C. market offers wine tasting kiosk

February 20, 2008

The (Ashville, N.C.) Citizen-Times: When John Dermas and his brother Yotty visited Italy, they were amazed by what they discovered there. It wasn't a…

Redbox to install 2,700 additional kiosks at Wal-Mart

February 7, 2008

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. — Redbox, the fully automated DVD rental system featuring new release rentals for $1 per night, has announced an agreement with…

Healthnotes kiosk shown to increase shopper satisfaction, drive sales

February 6, 2008

PORTLAND, Ore.  — Healthnotes announced results of an in-store test conducted by an independent firm showing that the company's "Fresh Ideas" program drives…

NEXTEP SYSTEMS announces deli express kiosk rollout

February 5, 2008

TROY, Mich. — NEXTEP SYSTEMS, a provider of automated ordering solutions, has announced an agreement to provide their Deli Express touchscreen ordering system…

StoreNext offers Fujitsu's U-Scan self-checkout to independent grocers

February 4, 2008

PLANO, Texas, — StoreNext Retail Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Retalix USA, has announced it will offer Fujitsu's U-Scan Genesis self-checkout system to…

WINCOR WORLD: 360-degree scanning will speed check-out

January 31, 2008

PADERBORN, Germany — Barcodes have been around since the 1970s, and while the technology that does the actual scanning of them has improved, another part of…