New Meaning to Grab and Go: Alibaba Unveils its Unmanned Store
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Alibaba’s the Tmall Future Store shows how technology can help offline merchants thrive in the e-commerce ageIf you’ve ever waited in line impatiently to pay for groceries, chances are you’ve wished you could escape the typical service experience we all tend to encounter as shoppers. While delivery and e-commerce services offer one alternative for people hoping to avoid the hassle, a more recent effort at Alibaba is making it likely that you’ll soon be shopping in stores that let you walk in, grab what you need, and pay automatically as you walk out, simplifying #retail for shoppers and merchants alike.To showcase its progress, Alibaba recently unveiled an experimental 80-square meter installation of its new Tmall Future Store at the 2018 Yunqi Computing Conference, inviting attendees to (...)
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