Unmanned Store Technology
What is Unmanned Store Technology?
A new business model of unmanned convenience stores has been introduced to the retail industry in recent years. An unmanned convenience store is a store format where customers can carry out their errands 24/7 without the involvement of service personnel due to fully automated payment solutions. They are digitized and unmanned, meaning they are not operated by people. There is no staff such as cashiers or waiters. This way, unmanned store operators can offer their customers to buy products for their daily needs frictionless, at any time and anywhere.
Because of the decreased need for employees, the new concepts can increase both efficiency and revenues as well as decrease costs for the companies. Due to low overhead costs, the store has the potential to be located both in rural and sparsely populated areas as well as in urban areas with a growing population who values efficiency. They are placed either at high-frequency locations such as train stations, gas stations, hospitals, and universities or in rural areas without local suppliers. Also, it is an ideal solution for places that used to have few and limited vending machines. It is an ideal solution for groceries or pharmacy items. For example, this method of stores spread in the Swedish countryside.
Sales automation with vending machines has been around for a long time, but technological development with safe payment solutions has taken it to new levels. The concept began to expand with small boxes that enable customers to shop inside, not just as vending machines. Nowadays it is an emerging trend that is hitting the grocery industry. The name was unstable at first, and this technology was given many names according to its characteristics such as 24/7 stores, container boxes, micro-stores, self-service stores, cashier-less supermarkets, self-checkout stores, unstaffed, digital supermarkets, automated micro market, Just Walk Out, Grab’n Go, however, with the time it has gained a stable name, according to the development of its characteristics, that it is unmanned stores.
Types of Unmanned Stores
Just Walk Out
The most well-known Just Walk Out technology is Amazon’s “Amazon Go“. However, there are other companies using it like Aldi and Zappaka. In Amazon Go stores, customers simply take products and walk out. Amazon already operates about 30 stores in the U.S. and UK. challenge. This technology a lot of cameras and sensors to identify who puts which product in the shopping basket. This technology faces the challenges of its high cost according to its hardware and software requirements and legal challenges related to privacy laws in some countries, such as the European Union, for example.
Stores with vending machines
Oversized vending machines are also an emerging trend. Either customer buy directly at vending machines put up in a store or place orders in advance via their smartphone app or at a terminal. The goods are then automatically picked behind the scenes using robotics and can then be collected at a deposit box. Here again, it is high-cost technology.
Self-Checkout Stores
Currently, the popularity of unmanned 24/7 stores with self-checkout is increasing, either via Scan & Go smartphone app or via self-checkout terminals. The advantage is that hardware and technology costs are comparatively low. shoppers scan products with their smartphones and then pay directly within the app. Alternatively, there are self-checkout terminals where customers can scan the products and pay via various payment methods. There are different methods for this technology, however, one of its characteristics is Anti-theft surveillance via identification and Technically, through the exit gates linked to the payment system and scanning products.
Our Sustainable solutions
Jidar’s solutions that we provide to companies and entrepreneurs, support sustainability first, and low-cost solutions. So we designed three types of solutions for retail sales in unmanned stores that are specifically oriented to the Arab world.
CONTAINER STORE
It is a store for staples basic foodstuffs that is important for customers’ daily needs. We help you rehabilitate used shipping containers and provide you with an integrated system, which combines identification, monitoring, checkout, sales, inventory management, and e-invoice. We could offer an app for home delivery application by using electric scooters. This is an ideal solution for entrepreneurs who want to enter the grocery and retail sector, rapidly expand, and build a brand. It is an ideal solution to place in such train stations, gas stations, hospitals, and universities or in rural areas and within populated neighborhoods.
SMALL STORE
Convenience store solutions, that we offer to stores that are located within the urban fabric as regular grocery stores or pharmacies, differ only in that it is fully automated, and we offer you all the services that we provide with a container solution.
SUPERMARKETS AND HYPERMARKETS
For supermarkets and hypermarkets, we offer compact solutions. Smart shopping carts that are integrated with scanning and payment system and secure exit gates. The smart shopping cart itself can scan the product and add it to the payment basket, or the customer can scan the product via his smartphone and put it in the cart, then pay the bill and go to the exit gate associated with an automatic scanning system for products in the cart.
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SERVICES
We provide you with all the technical services, to begin a small chain of stores with low investment capital.
ESTABLISH
We are a business incubator for these pioneering projects, offering advice, experience, and following for free.
MARKETING
Marketing your Unmanned store, We are able to market these unique stores as Entrepreneurship projects
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