Academic literature on the topic 'Checkout-free'

Self-checkout services in today's retail stores are well received as they set free the labor force of cashiers and shorten conventional checkout lines. However, existing self-checkout options either require customers to scan items one by one, which is troublesome and inefficient, or rely on deployments of massive sensors and cameras together with complex tracking algorithms. On the other hand, RFID-based item-level tagging in retail offers an extraordinary opportunity to enhance current checkout experiences. In this work, we propose Taggo, a lightweight and efficient self-checkout schema utilizing well-deployed RFIDs. Taggo attaches a few anchor tags on the four upper edges of each shopping cart, so as to figure out which cart each item belongs to, through relative positioning among the tagged items and anchor tags without knowing their absolute positions. Specifically, a full-dimension ordering technique is devised to accurately determine the order of tags in each dimension, as well as to address the negative impacts from imperfect measurements in indoor surroundings. Besides, we design a holistic classifying solution based on probabilistic modeling to map each item to the correct cart that carries it. We have implemented Taggo with commercial RFID devices and evaluated it extensively in our lab environment. On average, Taggo achieves 90% ordering accuracy in real-time, eventually producing 95% classifying accuracy.

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the proportion of foods that are unhealthy to which children are exposed at the checkout of convenience supermarkets.DesignWe performed a cross-sectional survey of foodstuffs displayed at the checkout. Products displayed at or below children's eye-level were designated as healthy, unhealthy or unclassifiable using the Food Standards Agency's scoring criteria.SettingThirteen convenience supermarkets from the three leading UK supermarket chains were selected on the basis of proximity to the town hall in Sheffield, England.SubjectsConvenience supermarkets were defined as branches of supermarket chains that were identified as being other than superstores on their company's store locator website.ResultsIn almost all of the convenience supermarkets surveyed, the main healthy product on display was sugar-free chewing gum. On average, when chewing gum was not included as a foodstuff, 89% of the products on display at the checkouts of convenience supermarkets were unhealthy using the Food Standards Agency's criteria. One store was a notable outlier, providing only fruit and nuts at its checkout.ConclusionsThe overwhelming majority of products to which children are exposed at the convenience supermarket checkout are unhealthy. This is despite all the supermarket chains surveyed having signed up to the UK Government's ‘responsibility deal’.

Periodic mechanical overhaul is the most common model for relay protection equipments in power systems of the country. Over-treatment for minor illness or unnecessary treatment for disease-free of relay protection device that didnt need an overhaul would be arose by this model, which caused resource wastes and reduced the availability factor. The paper aims at evaluating and classifying the relay protection equipments, building centesimal evaluation model and prescient mechanical checkout model, as well as improving reliability of electricity grids by building condition-based maintenance, evaluation, decision and support systems of relay protection equipments.

Internet of Things (IoT) can make a significant contribution in making cities greener, more secure, and more viable. This paper proposes 4 subsystems that help make cities smarter. First is a Smart Super Market, which enables customers to acquire product information with smart storage details and also makes the checkout process hassle-free. A waste collection system, in light of offering intelligence to garbage canisters, using IoT is also introduced. A Smart Streetlight and Traffic Signals Control System is presented which has two parts. The first part automates streetlight control using sensors that detect daylighting and other weather conditions. The second part presents traffic signals controlled by sensing the real-time congestion on the roads. A Women Safety System which helps women feel safer by notifying the local authorities in alarming situations is also introduced.

The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) (Altarelli et al., 2006; Tschentscher et al., 2017), the world's largest and brightest X-ray free-electron laser (Saldin et al., 1999; Pellegrini et al., 2016), went into operation in 2017. This article describes the as-built realization of photon diagnostics for this facility, the diagnostics commissioning and their application for commissioning of the facility, and results from the first year of operation, focusing on the SASE1 beamline, which was the first to be commissioned. The commissioning consisted of pre-beam checkout, first light from the bending magnets, X-rays from single undulator segments, SASE tuning with many undulator segments, first lasing, optics alignment for FEL beam transport through the tunnel up to the experiment hutches, and finally beam delivery to first users. The beam properties assessed by photon diagnostics throughout these phases included per-pulse intensity, beam position, shape, lateral dimensions and spectral properties. During this time period, the machine provided users with up to 14 keV photon energy, 1.5 mJ pulse energy, 300 FEL pulses per train and 4.5 MHz intra-bunch train repetition rate at a 10 Hz train repetition rate. Finally, an outlook is given into the diagnostic prospects for the future.

Abstract For over 12 years, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has operated a fleet of microprocessor-based ocean-bottom seismometers. These instruments free-fall to the seafloor and release their anchors and rise to the surface either at preset times or on receipt of an acoustic command. The instruments are contained in a single spherical pressure case and include geophones with a 1-Hz natural period, and differential pressure gauges responsive to acoustic signals between 0.003 and 30 Hz. Recent improvements described in detail here include the implementation of a C-44 bus 80C88 microprocessor and cassette recorders capable of storing up to 10 days of data digitized at 128 samples/sec, or 40 days at 32 samples/sec. In addition, tiltmeters have been installed in the instruments. Serial links to the processor and release timers provide for instrument checkout and the setting of time and data parameters from outside the pressure case. A portable laboratory also described here is used to prepare the instruments for deployment at sea.

Shopping became one of the most important tasks that people conduct on a daily basis. A mart is a place where various things can be purchased within a roof. Customers must patiently wait in lengthy lines, especially on weekends, until it is their turn. Due to people's busy schedules, this is a time-consuming process that leaves them exhausted and dissatisfied with the services provided at the checkout counters. We proposed and implemented an autonomous trolley with an electronic billing system. The proposed and developed system is separated into two sections, the first section consists of RFID tags and camera-based product scanning and detection, while the second section consists of bill generation and e-payment. The second output is of a shopping receipt, which was printed using a thermal printer effectively, and smart trolley-based bill detection will be accomplished. This self-billing is a new technology that can present us with numerous advantages. Currently, everyone is familiar with e-payments, and because our system is also based on direct bank transactions. This smart trolley-based bill detection will ultimately be accomplished through the user's bank and Jazz Cash. Automated trolley systems are designed to provide customers with knowledge about their collected items and decision-making abilities based on prior purchase patterns in order to ensure a hassle-free shopping experience.

Theoretical basis This compact case study uses the marketing mix (product, price, place and promotion) and customer segmentation/targeting as theoretical platforms for the Amazon Go business concept. It reinforces the idea that these are important aspects in developing a successful marketing strategy especially when they are aligned with the core competencies of a firm. Additional concepts include localization strategy, loyalty and Maslow’s hierarchy. Localization focuses on merchandising and local partnerships. Customer loyalty is discussed in the context of loyalty programs and consumer trust. Maslow’s hierarchy is used as a way to connect the pandemic and safety concerns to the offline retail experience. Research methodology This case was developed from secondary sources readily available in the public domain including websites, news articles and social media sites. This case has been taught in undergraduate marketing management courses. Case overview/synopsis In 2018, Amazon opened high tech convenience stores across a number of metropolitan cities in the USA offering a checkout-free experience for customers. This case evaluates the marketing aspects of the move including industry structure, store format and customer loyalty. The underlying question is how will Amazon, the company that pioneered online shopping, perform in an offline retail marketplace that is highly competitive? Will Amazon be able to leverage its massive technology power and shake up offline retail? Will changing market forces caused by the pandemic reshape retail as we know it? Complexity academic level This case should be used in a marketing management course or a retailing course for undergraduate students. Applicable concepts include competitive advantage, marketing mix, customer loyalty and retailing in a digital world. This case could also be used to discuss or compare the differences between online and offline brand leadership.

The world’s first film specifically produced for an exhibition was displayed in the American Museum of Natural History back in 1930. In the 1960s the Estonian National Museum also began to collect actively ethnographic film material during fieldwork, but its use in exhibitions was marginal. The films at the museum’s new permanent exhibition, ’Encounters’, however, contribute significantly to the visual and content identity of the display and invite visitors to engage in a social and cultural dialogue. Along with the showcases, the films create a visual rhythm in the display hall, and their visuals and sound accompany visitors throughout the entire exhibition. By virtue of presenting diverse perspectives and their integration with the surrounding display, the films can visibly and audibly join in the discussions that ’Encounters’ seeks to elicit. The films of ’Encounters’ focus on the past and present inhabitants of the territory of Estonia, primarily, who have their subjective views and particular life experience and through whom an exhibition visitor can gain an insight into the broader cultural and social context. If in the past, museum films and display items were strictly curated, with the power to create and distribute knowledge concentrated in the hands of curators-filmmakers, then at present the role of museum visitors examining the material has increasingly become more active. Without a recourse to the voice-over or music, which prescribe to the visitors how they should perceive and construe the content, visitors can experience and decipher the films independently. Without the curator’s direct didactical intervention, visitors are free to assign a personal meaning to the themes presented. The films of ’Encounters’, which are unconventionally slow and long-lasting for contemporary people, offer a challenge and opportunity for thoughtful reflection. My own video exhibit ’Stories of Freedom’, which presents the thoughts of nearly 80 inhabitants of Estonia on the subject of freedom in the form of videotaped interviews and written citations, explores meanings and ideas that are abstract and nonmaterial but universally inherent to human beings. The documentaries of Marko Raat take a detailed look at various processes and work techniques from traditional as well as modern life. His films deal with some cultural practices that are still in use but inevitably vanishing as well as some contemporary practices such as a day at a supermarket checkout belt, or activities in the kitchens of top chefs. Raat’s scripted portrait films summon up the lives of people from the past. By his use of aesthetically eclectic and stylised form instead of maximally accurate reconstruction, the filmmaker deliberately minimises the possibility of the films being seen as accurate representations of history. Although the films are not historically faithful depictions in terms of their aesthetics, Raat has used archival documents and authentic museum objects as the films’ source material. Thus, by building on historical documents and objects, he has created characters who tell their real-life stories on the vertical screens, look into the eyes of the visitors and go about their business. The text of archival documents has been brought to life in a historical re-enactment, and the use of authentic objects illustrates the context in which these objects were originally used. When film is integrated with other materials, such as written citations in the video exhibit ’Stories of Freedom’ or traditional costumes in the film ’Clothing’, we are able to detect connections and associations which would not have emerged in isolation. By observing the exhibited items through the perspective of the people who have used and experienced them, such as the traditional dress that an elderly lady from the island of Kihnu puts on, we can also sense more keenly the meaning of these objects. Their story becomes visible through the perspective of the user. The exhibition films can also efficiently describe daily life from thousands of years ago, of which there are no visual records. For instance, the experiment of grinding a stone axe in the film ’Touchstone of Patience’, gives us a sense of what people in the Stone Age had to routinely endure. Combining film with some authentic stones exhibited nearby, enhances the communicative potential of each exhibition item which would not be as great without such a juxtaposition. Traditional work practices, goods placed on the supermarket checkout belt, thoughts on freedom expressed by people with different age, social and cultural backgrounds comprise an important ethnographic material which will unlock stories of modern Estonia in a diversified and polyvocal manner in the future as well.

Electronic commerce has grown to such an extent since the advent of wireless technology to provide flexibility, comfort and productivity in daily life. Within this article, we discuss a pioneering RFID-based shopping trolley design in the super/hyper market. The long checkout lines also block our entire shopping experience. In order to overcome this issue, we replace the UPC barcode with the RFID tags on the products. The main aim of the project is to provide the customer with a positive shopping experience by reducing the limitations of the traditional shopping methodologies in all aspects..The targeted goal was to have an improved shopping experience with a technology-advanced, minimum cost, less time consuming, rush-free, commercially focused program

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元智大學
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In recent years, with the trend of internet of things technology, new patterns of consumption are constantly being generated. At present, the checkout-free store in Taiwan is still not officially opened to the general public. In Taiwan, consumers are so dependent on the consumption pattern of convenience stores, and many of them have begun to study what kind of impact the new mode of consumption will bring to consumers. In this study, integrated technology acceptance and use model 2(UTAUT2) was used as the basis for research architecture. The new aspects trust, privacy, security and information sharing were combined with the UTAUT2 model and were used as regulatory variables, to explore the behavior intention of performance expectations, effort expectations, conditions, hedonic motives, price values and habits in checkout-free store. This study investigates the general consumer through the questionnaires and analyzes the recycled questionnaires through AMOS and SPSS analysis software and validates the hypothesis of this study. The results show that the impact of information sharing, trust, privacy and security as regulatory variables is not significant, while performance expectations, hedonic motivation, social impact and price value are all positive and significant effects on consumers’ use of checkout-free store. The results of this study can be provided for subsequent research on the use of the internet of things and the use of artificial intelligence, as well as suggestions for future business management in the field of checkout-free store.

The data mining activities studied in this chapter concern the early identification of potential high-value customers. Member stores can use this information to establish a close relationship with this select group of customers, thus reducing the chances of losing them. Traditionally, Japanese drugstore chains, unlike their American counterparts, have enjoyed close ties with their customers. For example, cash register clerks at Pharma stores may have substantial interactions with customers using online market research questionnaire forms. By closely monitoring the purchasing behavior of relatively new visitors to the store and applying data mining tools to pertinent data, the company can provide decision support to clerks and to the marketing department to aid in relationship building. For instance, sales campaign information, customized coupons, and free samples can be directly mailed to members of the targeted group or given to them at the checkout counter.

A content management system provides some key capabilities that can transform project management for pipeline surveying and engineering practices. These include methods to share and track the information used by project managers, engineers, project technical staff, and the pipeline owner / operator. The business need for content management is explained, along with a unique insight on the key ingredient that makes content management relevant to pipeline project managers: geographic referencing of project documents. Content management features, such as versioning and checkout, are presented, and a working web-based geographic content management system, developed entirely using free open source software, is demonstrated for a sample pipeline project. The working system integrates project documents, written communications, and CAD data through open standards. Conclusions include lessons learned in the development of the system and its use on real-world projects.