Unattended retail concept station.

At the end of 2016, amazon announced the creation of an unattended supermarket, which ignited the innovation torch of the retail industry.
In 2017, the concept of unmanned retail outlets is on the air, attracting traditional stores, brands and entrepreneurs.
At present, the form of unmanned retail in China is mainly divided into three categories: vending machines, open shelves and unattended stores.
In 2017, according to ai media, a consultancy, estimate no retail stores in China trade scale will reach 38.94 billion yuan, 2022 will reach 2022 yuan, the size of the user will increase from 2017 in 6 million to 2022 in 245 million.
At the moment, the vast market prospect of unattended stores has attracted the attention of e-commerce giants.
From ali's investment in unattended coffee shops to suning's launch of the "sports Biu" store, and the opening of the company's unattended convenience store in the range, the scene application of the unmanned store is growing.
Ma song, vice President of jd group, said it is inevitable that e-commerce will develop offline stores.
Using the accumulated technology, we can create new offline sales and make consumers everywhere.
For traditional stores and brands, the rising labor costs are forcing traditional businesses to change their operating modes and reduce their own costs.
In the field of unmanned retail, as long as the technology continues to stabilize at a high level, the commercial cost will be reduced to a reasonable range, and the profit of the supermarket will be no less than that of traditional stores and stores.
In view of this, some analysts believe that the demographic dividend of China is fading, and the price of Chinese labor will inevitably rise in the future, and it is an inevitable choice to adapt to this trend.
The retail industry has a fourth revolution.
Indeed, in the convergence of commodity, price transparency, the fierce competition in the retail, hypermarket, electrical dealers has been difficult to make, and the use of the Internet technology transformation offline channels, is another broad heaven and earth.
Through the Internet of things and the combination of technology and application scenarios, and businesses can collect and widely degrees highland user consumption behavior data, analysis the user consumption habits and preferences, indicate the scientific direction for future development.
Looking ahead to the future of "nobody + retail", liu qiandong, chief executive of jd.com, said the next 10 to 20 years will see "the fourth revolution" in retail sales.
The nature of retail remains the same, but it is still cost, efficiency and experience.
In the past, the Internet was just the beginning of the digital process.
The Internet has changed the trading side, but it has little impact on the supply side.
The future of the Internet of things and the transformation of the industry will be more profound.
In addition to the technological innovations brought to the industry, unmanned new formats will also drive the development of the whole retail industry.
No one in the future, when technology towards maturity, supermarket model continuous replication, consumers enjoy go to take the goods, there are no lines of shopping experience, the downstream supply chain will be eager to improve their efficiency of supply, by broadening more production lines, improve production technology, upgrade the way such as machinery and equipment, to meet the high efficiency of upstream speed.
Technical bottlenecks need to be broken.
At present, the market is full of expectations for the popularity of unattended supermarkets.
Chinese industrial institute executive vice President of the Internet (zhejiang) oh ok jiaqi that no economy will be a trend, but the new formats widely into the real life scenes, must accept the market concerns.
This kind of business model reduces labor force, also will bring the change of labor structure optimization.
The outlook is good, but no retail is still in its infancy, and there are inevitably problems, such as a loophole in anti-theft sensing.
Some of the customers voluntarily pay for the unattended stores, there is a big problem of theft.
What's more, the supermarket offers a limited range of goods that are hard to match with ordinary convenience stores and supermarkets.
In addition, there is also an analysis of the lack of the "sophistication" and "human interest" in the all-inclusive supermarket, and a large amount of investment in the market or will be cold.
Unattended supermarket really needs to solve the real business problem, among them, the technical difficulty to overcome is particularly important.
As a primary product, no supermarket needs to update iteration in practice.
On the one hand, need to strengthen the cooperation and communication between industry, the mechanical automation, sensors, machine vision, natural language processing and cognitive computing technologies such as organic unifies in together, a fast and convenient shopping experience for consumers.
On the other hand, consumer purchasing data is still to be collected.
More unmanned new formats can be launched only if the consumer needs to buy more.