vending machine

Retail Asia19/09/2023

A new climate tech start-up has introduced a unique vending machine technology that promotes the idea of BYO (bring-your-own) bottles to buy their drinks rather than marketing drinks in bottles that add more to landfills. Refilled aims to eliminate the colossal single-use plastic bottle waste caused by the vending industry by replacing them with its […]

Retail Asia16/01/2020

AI-run fruit-vending machines are offering Chinese consumers a new way of buying fruit and vegetables. The machines, developed two years ago by Beijing Kuo’an Science and Technology, are providing an alternative channel for residents of China’s tier-one and tier-two cities, who traditionally rely on relatively distant large-scale supermarkets and community stores for fruit purchases. “Every […]

Retail Asia11/09/2018

The deployment of smart vending technologies will surge in the Asia-Pacific as high-tech unmanned retail continues to attract major investment. The demand for technology-driven frictionless retail experiences, combined with cheap production costs and limited data privacy barriers, is driving rapid adoption in China, Japan, and South Korea, leaving the rest of the world behind, according […]

Retail Asia26/02/2018

Cargo, a startup intimately tied to Uber, just closed a $5.5 million seed round for its venture that lets drivers sell products to their riders. While PSFK has covered Cargo before, the funding represents a significant step forward for the idea and came with more details on how the whole system will work after applied […]

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Refilled’s vending machines encourage users to bring their own bottles

Chinese fruit-vending machines driven by AI

Smart vending machine sells a lot in China, Japan

Uber cars to become mobile convenience stores