Three trends in the smart retail industry - juice vending machine

Speaking of unmanned retail, you can't help but mention Amazon's Amazon Go, but due to technical and cost issues, it has not been implemented on a large scale abroad. On the contrary, the development of unmanned retail in China is very fast, and there are many unmanned stores such as unmanned convenience stores, unmanned shelves, unmanned supermarkets, and unmanned intelligent vending machines.

After the unmanned shelves were burned out of 3 billion financing, some of them failed, and the rest were put into the arms of unmanned container (unmanned smart vending machines). Unmanned supermarkets and unmanned convenience stores were not optimistic at first, but they are gradually developing. After a large amount of scouring in the market, the unmanned retail industry has gradually formed a three-pronged trend.

First, the unmanned supermarket

In the past two years, the development of unmanned supermarkets has been high-profile. First, Ali launched the “Amoy Coffee”. The 200 square meters area will integrate shopping and dining, and use a combination of various systems such as image recognition and artificial intelligence. Consumers have experienced a series of processes that have no cashiers and no cash payments. However, “Amoy Coffee” has not been really pushed to the society. In Ma Yun’s words, the emergence of Amoy Coffee is only to give the industry “a signal, some inspiration, some shock, some reflections”. Under such inspiration, Jingdong unmanned supermarket was awakened.

After landing in Beijing, Dalian, Tianjin and other cities, Jingdong’s first socialized store officially landed in Xi’an Big Wild Goose Pagoda. The series of processes of “Brushing Faces – Associated Information – Selecting Goods – Intelligent Channel Settlement” allows consumers to achieve “no feeling payment” and also means the official launch of the first unmanned supermarket in China.

For the time being, the technology of unmanned supermarkets has not yet developed to a relatively perfect stage, but it is only a matter of time. Once the technology is mature, you can use the digital management of offline stores to achieve the refined operation of offline traffic. Then, the further improvement of consumer experience, the reduction of store operating costs and the improvement of efficiency will no longer exist.

Second, no one convenience store

Compared with unmanned supermarkets, unmanned convenience stores are developing at a faster rate. Bingo Box, Take Go, Jane 24, and convenience bees are all trying to make efforts in this field.

Take Go, entry into the door is different from previous brushing face. Take Go alone looks at the consumer's "hand", according to the capillary on the palm of the consumer to generate a string of characters, you can be a user's identity Identification means that as long as you come to the door, you only need to reach out.

Compared with unmanned supermarkets, the unmanned convenience store has a more obvious feature besides technology, because it is smaller, has fewer SKUs and is closer to users, and it can satisfy consumers' instants. Sexual needs, technology is more like a icing on the cake for convenience stores.

Third, no intelligent sales vending machine

If the unmanned supermarket is the main "technology" and the unmanned convenience store is the main "fast", then the smart vending machine is a natural combination of the two. Take the Cookeryaki juice vending machine as an example.

The juice vending machine is smaller and more flexible to operate. It can appear in various scenes such as residential corridors, college dormitory downstairs, shopping malls and other places closer to consumers, which means that it is compatible with unmanned convenience stores. Compared to smart vending machines, consumers can get the products they want at a much faster speed.

On the whole, domestic unmanned retail sales still show a pattern of blooming, unmanned supermarkets and unmanned convenience stores still face many challenges in terms of technology and efficiency, while micro-formats such as automatic juice vending machine are more flexible. Instead, it will quickly adapt to the market and quickly gain recognition from consumers!