Retail Formats
Why Is Unmanned Retail Cooling Down?
Premature unmanned retail is experiencing growing pains. With rising labor costs, the popularity of mobile payments, and the rapid development and integration of frontier technologies such as AI, big data, and IoT, the new retail self-service industry is booming. Unmanned retail, as a representative, has shown huge potential, attracting traditional giants and startups alike, but it is also accelerating industry reshuffling. At the recent Third China Unmanned Retail Conference and 2019 Shanghai International Unattended Retail Exhibition, hundreds of traditional retailers, unmanned retail companies, and smart vending technology hardware and software service providers showcased new technologies and trends in retail intelligence transformation.
乐琰 陈慧