Enabling customers to scan items in the aisle as they shop and then check themselves out and complete the payment process all from their mobile phone holds multiple benefits for retailers aiming to improve the in-store experience, cut costs and increase revenues, a new white paper from Rambus explains.
“Brick-and-mortar merchants are in the midst of a period of unprecedented disruption,” say the authors of Mobile Scan-and-Go Technology: Enabling the Future of Retail[1]. “Long-term structural trends mean that retailers must address decreasing revenues and escalating costs, while evolving the in-store experience to meet the demands of the connected consumer.
“90% of all retail sales are still completed in-store, so there are significant opportunities for players who invest smartly in the right digital initiatives.”
Mobile scan-and-go technology can deliver benefits to retailers in three main areas, the paper explains:
- Boost ARPU (average revenue per user) and loyalty, by improving in-store productivity, raising average spend and increasing consumer lifetime value.
- Enhance the shopping experience, by eliminating checkout lines and enabling staff to be redeployed across other store functions to improve the overall customer experience.
- Optimize operational efficiencies, by reducing losses due to customer frustration with traditional self-checkout solutions, cutting transaction processing fees by increasing the percentage of ‘on-us’ store-branded, closed-loop payments and reducing infrastructure costs by limiting the need to produce, manage, transport and store paper receipts, plastic cards, cardboard coupons and print advertising.
“In these transformative times, those who can adapt to emerging challenges stand to gain significant competitive advantages,” Rambus concludes. “It is imperative, therefore, that merchants avoid paralysis by analysis and move quickly to deploy mobile scan-and-go.”
Readers can download the full white paper from the NFC World Knowledge Centre here[2].
