Micro Markets News
Avanti Markets upgrades micro market planogram features
September 8, 2020
Avanti Markets, a micro market hardware and software provider, has upgraded its planogram features to make it easier to adjust market layouts and reset the…
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Lil’ Drug Store Products acquires Convenience Valet
August 27, 2020
Lil' Drug Store Products Inc. has acquired Mechanical Servants, LLC, doing business as Convenience Valet, combining the resources of the two "point-of-need…
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Fieldstone Bakery to debut Mini Doodles Cookies, Grains 2 Go Bars for vending, micro markets
August 21, 2020
Fieldstone Bakery will introduce Mini Doodles Cookies and Grains 2 Go Bars to the vending and micro markets industry in September, both of which meet…
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365 Retail Markets acquires smart store technology provider Stockwell
August 14, 2020
365 Retail Markets, one of the nation's largest micro market providers, has acquired Stockwell of Oakland, California, a smart store technology provider that…
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Grubbrr teams with BlueStar to meet commerce automation demand post COVID-19
August 5, 2020
Grubbrr, a commerce automation company, has teamed with with BlueStar, a global distributor of solution-based technologies, to help meet the demand for…
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Five Star Food Service promotes Richard Kennedy to president/CEO
August 3, 2020
Richard Kennedy Five Star Food Service Inc., a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based convenience services operation, has promoted Richard Kennedy from chief…
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Convenience services posts Q1 growth despite COVID-19
July 20, 2020
The U.S. convenience services industry experienced Q1 growth despite the coronavirus, according to the Convenience Services Industry Impact tool released at…
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Aramark opens automated c-store in Southern California
July 10, 2020
Aramark has opened an autonomous convenience store called QuickEats Close Convenience in an apartment community called Nineteen01 in Santa Ana, California…
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AiFi on track to deploy 330 automated stores by 2021
July 6, 2020
AiFi, a provider of an automated, self-service store, is on track to deploy 330 new and retrofitted autonomous stores by the end of 2021, according to a press…
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NAMA names Craig Kushner Operator of the Year for second time
July 2, 2020
Craig Kushner The National Automatic Merchandising Association has named Craig Kushner, owner of Monumental Markets in Beltsville, Maryland, as its…
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UK operation introduces COVID-19 compliant micro markets
June 30, 2020
Express Vending, a Hertfordshire, U.K. based convenience services operator, has adapted its HUB MicroMarkets to ensure it is COVID-19 compliant, as businesses…
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Mobile micro markets bring self-service machines on wheels
June 30, 2020
Carts Blanche LLC has introduced VendaMarts, mobile robotic micro markets that offer fully automated inventories of pre-packaged fresh foods, according to a…
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365 Retail Markets adds touchless checkout kiosk
June 24, 2020
365 Retail Markets has added its v5 kiosk as its latest touchless checkout solution, according to the company's website.
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Mastercard survey shows global surge in digital payments
June 18, 2020
Mastercard Inc. released a study showing consumers worldwide are using contactless and other digital payments at record levels and moving away from cash due to…
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Impulsify designs unattended retail markets for apartment buildings
June 12, 2020
Impulsify Inc., a retail technology provider, has been contracted to design self-service Grab-and-Go markets for six apartment communities on the East Coast…
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NAMA clarifies New York law on reopening essential services
June 3, 2020
A New York state law for reopening non-essential businesses only applies to offices, auto dealers and commercial building management, according to Wes Fisher…
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NAMA calls on New York State to clarify guidance for reopening breakrooms
June 1, 2020
The National Automatic Merchandising Association has asked the State of New York to revise its interim guidance on safe breakroom reopening and has asked its…
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NAMA webinar today to address coping with COVID-19
May 14, 2020
Convenience services industry leaders take the virtual stage today in a free, 20-minute 2 p.m. EST webinar designed to share straight talk on what they're…
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PepsiCo helping restaurant workers coping with COVID-19
May 12, 2020
Building on its more than $50 million commitment for COVID-19 relief, PepsiCo Foodservice is launching four programs aimed at supporting restaurants and their…
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Survey says over 80% of U.S. small businesses expect long-term impact from pandemic
May 11, 2020
San Francisco-based Veem, a global payments network, surveyed 630 small business companies on a variety of issues regarding how the coronavirus has affected…
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