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Retailers are dealing with a double whammy of hiring woes and consumers who are no longer willing to deal with long checkout lines.

Retailers Adding $555 Billion Headwind To The Economy Due to Long Lines

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Post-Pandemic Hangover Causing $555 Billion Headwinds for Brick and Mortar Retail as Shoppers Habitually Abandon Long Lines

Press Release Post-Pandemic Hangover Causing $555 Billion Headwinds for Brick and Mortar Retail as Shoppers Habitually Abandon Long Lines

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Ambient Intelligence is Powering the Frictionless Economy

Ambient intelligence–the combination of ambient computing and AI–makes our lives easier by embedding sensing and computing power around us. The embedding is such that the..

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One Million Checkout-Free Shoppers on the Road To Ten Million

Over the weekend Zippin reached a major milestone at Houston’s Toyota Center, home of the Rockets: one million shoppers have now experienced checkout-free retail at a store..

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The Frictionless Economy And Why It Matters

For too long, technology has required us to learn new skills and do more tasks—often repetitive, mundane work—to reap its benefits. But that is now changing. Advances in..

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