The ongoing partnership sees Monop opening an autonomous section within its new concept store on Rue de Marseille in Paris.
Following the pilot of its first Autonomous Store (“Blackbox” project developed with Casino group), Monop has again leveraged Shekel Brainweigh Retail Innovation Division’s Capsule, an autonomous micro-market framework, to power its second store.
The new store deploys a new concept where the autonomous store section is part of a standard shop during working hours, but once the store closes, the autonomous store section remains open with unique access control. The Autonomous store utilises several technologies to provide an unattended, contactless shopping experience where shoppers use a mobile payment app to walk in, select their goods and walk out, providing the retailer with alternate, off-hours, revenue sources.
To enter the autonomous store section, a shopper is identified using a secured payment. Shopper then selects his items, each of which is registered via Shekel’s Product Aware shelves technology and a management system that is automatically integrated to the retailer’s POS. Once the shopping is done, the shopper leaves the store without needing to check out through traditional self-checkout machines or via store cashiers. Since all administrative processes are automated, such as calculating and paying for purchases, shopper’s experience is truly frictionless that streamlines his time in store.
Mr. Udi Wiesner, General Manager of Shekel Brainweigh Retail Innovation Division: “Monop has been consistently demonstrating its leadership and innovation not only in technology adoption but also bringing to the market new, creative concepts of shopping experience and efficiency to its customers. Shekel brings its Product Aware Technology for product recognition, and together with our partners in the project we provide first of its kind solution for autonomous ’store in store’ concept, hence spearheading a real revolution in the retail landscape. That would let customers buy 24/7 while experiencing totally frictionless customer journey. Bringing autonomous stores to retail in Europe, as demonstrated in this store, is a very important signal to the market for the adoption and utilisation of such solutions, and a highly cost-effective way to get closer to what consumers expect.”
