Are you ready of a glimpse of what retail
c-store just might look line in your neighborhood within the next five years? Will
saving time and money be important to you? Do you think Amazon Go is the only
solution to contactless fast fresh food and beverage fast?
Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru®
at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believes you
will begin to see more new retail locations the ilk of Loop Neighborhood Market than Amazon Go or 7-Eleven’s in the next five years.
Consumers are dynamic not static, and the
one thing we have learned going though this Covad-19 experience is that we have
had way too much non-essential contact with other within the retail experience
according to Johnson. So, a digital
transformation is upon us and the convenience channel, an autonomous experience
is no longer a nice-to-have, but a need-to-have if retailers want to keep pace
with consumers’ changing lifestyles and lessons learned.
Loop Neighborhood Market introduced a
totally autonomous convenience store and gas station in one of the technology
capitals of the world: Silicon Valley. The San Francisco-based retailer tapped
artificial intelligence (AI) technology company AiFi
Inc. for its AiFi Autonomous Store Platform.
So, based on AiFi’s modular NanoStore
template, the autonomous Loop Neighborhood Market clocks in at just 160 square
feet. The store provides customers with an autonomous solution in a fun and
engaging small store footprint. The format also enables the location to be open
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Varish Goyal, president of Loop
Neighborhood Market stated “The new autonomous Loop Neighborhood is a wonderful
step forward for our store brand. The fast, frictionless process is delightful
and helps customers get what they need to move on with their day,”. Regular
readers of this blog know we have reported on this company before and were
impressed with the template.
So once again here is how it works is
AiFi has a template shopping app that retailers can choose to label as their
own. Under the hood, AiFi has an API that links to all payment methods,
including a retailer’s own payment apps, the common payment methods of debit
card and credit card, and all contactless payment methods including Apple Pay
and Samsung Pay.
When one or more customers enter the
store, after registering a method of payment, they select their items and leave
the store, receiving an immediate receipt for whatever they took out with them.
“The entire transaction only takes seconds to complete,” noted Steve Gu,
co-founder and CEO of AiFi.
Is your company looking
for a platform to edify its relationship with consumers while reducing cost of
operating? If so invite Foodservice Solutions® to complete a Grocerant Program
Assessment, Grocerant ScoreCard, or for product positioning or placement assistance,
or call our Grocerant Guru®. Since 1991 Foodservice Solutions® of Tacoma, WA has been the global leader in the
Grocerant niche. Contact: Steve@FoodserviceSolutions.us or 253-759-7869
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