365 Retail Markets Targets Smaller Locations With CV Vantage Smart Cooler

365 Retail Markets has introduced CV Vantage, a lower-investment smart cooler built to bring unattended self-service retail to locations too small to justify a full micro market. Like the rest of 365's Vision smart cooler line, CV Vantage uses computer vision to identify the products shoppers remove and complete checkout. Customers tap a card to unlock the door, select their items, and close it; there is no cashier and no scanning. Open shelving accommodates beverages, snacks and fresh food, and corner-mounted cameras give operators flexibility in how they configure the shelves. The company developed the cooler for smaller accounts where a full micro market may not be practical — offices, apartment communities, hotels, fitness centers and car dealerships are the named targets. 365 also offers financing options for the unit, subject to approval. For operators, CV Vantage is a bid to widen the universe of viable unattended locations: accounts that once could not support a market's footprint or capital cost could now be sold a compact, self-checkout cooler instead, potentially adding route revenue in spaces that were previously out of reach. Source: Vending Market Watch — https://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/equipment/product/55415427/365-retail-markets-365-retail-markets-offers-cv-vantage-for-smaller-self-service-retail-locations