Xhockware's YouBeep app for speedy checkout, higher customer spending
- Portugal
- 4 min read
- Mar 20, 2019
- By Gareth Gardiner Jones
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Besides cutting checkout time to under 1 minute, this in-store shopping app also has other bright ideas: targeted marketing, allergy warnings, even wine-pairing tips
Walmart's recent scrapping of its mobile checkout Scan & Go app could prove to be Portuguese startup Xhockware's opportunity.
The US retail giant had cited "friction points" such as "receipt checks" and "un-bagged merchandise" resulting from the use of Scan & Go, on top of "low adoption," to explain why it canned its cashierless checkout app.
"What could have saved Walmart's Scan & Go?," Xhockware tweeted in response to the news. "Applying the right strategy along with the right technology is the key to successful implementation of technological innovation."
Xhockware...
The US retail giant had cited "friction points" such as "receipt checks" and "un-bagged merchandise" resulting from the use of Scan & Go, on top of "low adoption," to explain why it canned its cashierless checkout app.
"What could have saved Walmart's Scan & Go?," Xhockware tweeted in response to the news. "Applying the right strategy along with the right technology is the key to successful implementation of technological innovation."
Xhockware...
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