[March 21, 2013]

Research and Markets: Self-Checkout Retail Terminals: Benefits, Detriments, and Opportunities

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7zjtqx/selfcheckout) has announced the addition of the "Self-Checkout Retail Terminals: Benefits, Detriments, and Opportunities" report to their offering.

The customer checkout process is a high priority for merchants in part because it affects the customer's shopping experience. The merchant does not want the customer's final interaction during shopping to be unpleasant.

Merchants invest significant time and money to optimize the checkout process and ensure that it is expedient and secure and offers sufficient customer service to leave the customer with a positive impression. Increasingly, retailers are finding this can be accomplished with self-checkout terminals.

Mercator Advisory Group's new report, Self-Checkout Retail Terminals: Benefits, Detriments, and Opportunities, analyzes the inherent positive and negative aspects of self-checkout solutions and determines which merchants have the most to gain by adopting them. The report also details the current market for self-checkut terminals, including profiles of current products from the four largest solution manufacturers, and provides an outlook for how technological developments will affect self-checkout in the future.

"The benefit of self-checkout terminals to both merchants and consumers has led to a rapid increase in the number of such terminals," says Dave Kaminsky, senior analyst in Mercator Advisory Group's Emerging Technologies Service and author of the report. "The technology is young, still growing and improving quickly. That growth, paired with the developments in the payments ecosystem surrounding it, will lead to sustained increase in demand over the next few years."

Highlights:

- Analysis of the benefits and detriments of self-checkout, including the extent to which the benefits profit the merchant and the detriments can be negated

- The characteristics required for a merchant to take advantage of the opportunities offered by self-checkout, and profiles of the industries most likely to include merchants with such characteristics

- Explanation of the current market for self-checkout solutions, with profiles of products available from the four largest manufacturers of self-checkout solutions

- The likely effect of innovations and economic developments in the near future on the demand for self-checkout, from both the merchant and the consumer perspective

Key Topics Covered:

Executive Summary

Introduction

The Case for Self-Service Checkout

Benefits of Self-Checkout

Detriments of Self-Checkout

Businesses Best Suited to Self-Checkout

The Self-Checkout Market

Currently Available Solutions

Future Developments in Self-Checkout

EMV

Mobile Commerce

Self-Checkout Market Outlook

End Notes

Copyright Notice

Companies Mentioned

- AisleBuyer

- Fujitsu

- IBM (News - Alert)

- JCPenney

- NCR

- Price Chopper

- QThru

- Toshiba

- Walmart

- Wincor Nixdorf

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7zjtqx/selfcheckout

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