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Retail Asia19/08/2020

The bank hopes to equip its employees with skills in these areas, under a partnership with cloud services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS). DBS Bank will accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across its business by training its staff in these skills with the launch of the AWS DeepRacer League, the bank […]

Retail Asia01/08/2020

Demand for retail goods continues to grow exponentially in today’s omnichannel world. In addition to this, COVID-19, which has seen a huge increase in activity within the e-commerce space, has put retail businesses and supply chains under even more pressure to keep up with increasing demand and sharper consumer expectations. Alongside the current high pressure […]

Retail Asia10/01/2020

China’s largest coffee chain Luckin Coffee is moving into the vending machines market. “It allows us to get closer to consumers and we are not restricted by the license approvals,” said Luckin founder and CEO Qian Zhiya of the new strategy. Luckin’s machines will serve freshly brewed drinks as well as food. The firm also […]

Retail Asia09/07/2019

Hong Kong Customs has conducted a territory-wide operation to combat counterfeit dolls in claw machines. Codenamed “Octopus”, the operation proceeded from June 5–13 and resulted in the seizure of about 2700 suspected counterfeit dolls and other relevant items with an estimated market value of about HK$300,000 (US$38,322). Customs had earlier received information alleging that the […]

Retail Asia20/03/2019

Royal Vending has launched 35 cashless-enabled vending machines in a cluster it calls Boardwalk Advendture. Featuring more than 50 brands, Boardwalk Advendture is the first automation cluster set in a tourist attraction which the company says ushers in a new age of automated retail-tainment. “Boardwalk Advendture pushes the envelope and signals a new age of […]

Retail Asia12/10/2017

The US motor vehicle industry appear to have removed the last piece of personal interaction involved in the process of purchasing a car, with the launch of car vending machines. Shoppers who prefer to bypass physical dealerships can now order and pay for their car online before popping down to a multi-storey building resembling a […]

Retail Asia07/08/2017

Uniqlo has deployed its first apparel vending machines at key locations across the USA, as the Japanese retailer looks to enter new markets. Dubbed ‘Uniqlo to Go’, the fashion vending machines are popping up in select American airport terminals during August. According to the Fast Retailing-owned brand, the first ten are scheduled for Oakland Airport, where […]

Retail Asia31/07/2017

Chinese supermarket chain New Hua Du Supercenter has acquired a vending-machine company just weeks after Alibaba and Auchan launched self-service convenience stores. Based in Fujian, the chain says it has signed an equity-swap agreement with Beijing Ubox Online Technology Corporation. Under the deal, Ubox, which runs more than 57,000 vending machines – more than any […]

Retail Asia24/05/2017

DHL introduced a new integral part of its Resilience360 supply chain risk management platform called DHL Supply Watch. The extension of DHL’s early warning system uses machine learning and natural language processing to detect disruptions in a company’s supply base before they cause financial losses or long lasting reputational damage. With Supply Watch, DHL Resilience360 […]

Retail Asia27/01/2017

Machine learning in 2017 will become a mainstream tool for communications providers struggling to transform data overload into actionable analytics, according to Argyle Data. “The telecommunications industry is drowning in data,” said Padraig Stapleton, VP of engineering at Argyle Data. “Functions like support, billing, customer care and marketing, throwing off large amounts of data as a […]

Retail Asia28/10/2016

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Huawei has developed a prototype technology involving using machine learning to achieve intelligent, automated network traffic control. The vendor’s Noah’s Ark Laboratory has announced results of tests into Network Mind, a prototype technology designed to enable automatic detection and accurate prediction of traffic changes on a network, applying optimizations based on service changes. Huawei said […]

Retail Asia06/10/2016

Deputy Director of the BI Financial Management Department Asral Mashuri in Jakarta, Tuesday 4, 2016, said that Bank Indonesia (BI) is planning on implementing a coin deposit machine to ease people in saving the form of money. “The machine would look like an ATM, but this one is for coins, and the machine can sort out the […]

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DBS to Train Staff in AI and Machine Learning

Man vs. Machine: The Next Generation of the Retail Supply Chain

Luckin Coffee ways into the vending-machines landscape

Operation Octopus cracks down on counterfeit dolls in claw machines

Boardwalk Advendture vending machine cluster opens at Sentosa

Car vending machines dispense vehicles bought online

Uniqlo deploys apparel vending machines

New Hua Du Supercenter buys vending machine group

DHL: Machine learning to mitigate supplier risks

Telcos turn to machine learning as they drown in data

Huawei applies machine learning to network control

BI to Introduce Coin Deposit Machine