Welcome to the exciting 16th edition of ‘Vending Insight’, a regular feature from Planet Vending and sponsored by Vianet, that focuses on today’s cashless, connected, IoT (Internet of Things) society. There’s no product news in Vending Insight and no stories about the providers of those products. On the contrary, it’s our intention to provide those vending operators, who are hungry for information on developing technologies, with some satisfying food for thought.
This week, Ian Reynolds-Young is putting a call out for Brand Managers and Vending Operators to join us as Thought Leaders and, as usual, we’ll provide our Ten Top Links that will take you to stories that have appeared across the Internet. They won’t all be about vending: in fact, we’ll steer you, through these stories, in the direction the world is heading. We hope that Vending Insight will inspire you to investigate how to apply the features of cashless payments, data collection and connectivity to the advantage of your vending business.
We Want To Hear From Vending Operators and Brand Managers
Vending operators and brand managers, we want to hear from you in order to understand how data has changed / is changing your working methods. We know that having data at your fingertips is making a difference to the way you do business, we’d like your thoughts so join us as Thought Leaders. Click HERE to find out more.
From the Internet
Festivals go cashless and see rise in revenues, and reduction of transaction times… (IQ Mag.net) HERE
Manchester United invests in digital as key to commercial success… (Forbes) HERE
Digital Transformation: a new Buzz phrase or something we all need to set into our marketing strategies? HERE is a guide from i-Scoop but we’ll be exploring this further.
Top Ten Digital Transformation Trends for 2019… (Technology unfolded) HERE
‘To offer a genuine omnichannel experience, merchants must be able to engage with customers in a consistent, seamless manner across digital, physical and social media. Eventually, with artificial intelligence and facial recognition, customers that “liked” a social post featuring a product or even added an item to their online cart could be greeted by name by an associate’ (MultiChannelMerchant) MORE HERE
Your Omnichannel strategy is no quick fix to an ailing business but don’t throw it out of the window, stick with it. (Diginomica) HERE
Connectivity in the car industry is much more than providing users with the internet as they strive for improved safety and enhanced information (Raconteur) HERE
Who’s saying what about IoT? Here are 19 quotes from influential people, compiled by Forbes, on IoT – an interesting read HERE
An insider view of how your IoT strategy might fail… VMWare HERE
The Daily Star (Lebanon) has run this story about buskers, homeless and churches in London taking to cashless readers, however there is concern that those without access to bank accounts will be excluded. Read HERE