Senior Editor (Hotels)
Zippin, a provider of checkout-free technologies for brick-and-mortar retail, announced the launch of its latest retail format: a hotel convenience store. Zippinâs partner, Fujitsu,a systems integrator in Japan, has worked with Koyo Group to implement the worldâs first checkout-free store within a hotel at the Yokohama Techno Tower Hotel. It is also the first store in Japan open to the general public to use biometric authentication technology to verify customersâ identities.Â
WIth this partnership, the store operator is keeping shoppers and workers safe during the pandemic with a cashierless checkout, eliminates stress of lines and wait times, and raises customer satisfaction by optimizing the product lineup.Â