Cruizers Stores Begin Offering Frictionless Checkout

01/29/2019
CSNews
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Cruizers is joining the growing list of convenience retailers who are bringing the frictionless checkout experience to their stores.
This week, the Chapel Hill-based retailer is rolling out a soft launch of the technology through a partnership with Skip. The Salt Lake City-based tech startup is aiming to bring its frictionless checkout technology to 3,000 locations this year.
In addition to the 27 Cruizers c-stores in North Carolina, Skip is bringing 23 grocery stores online by Feb. 6. This is on top of the 60 grocery outlets that have gone live with the company’s technology
The company is scheduled to be in a total of 275 locations between both grocery and convenience by the end of the first quarter — reaching 9 percent of its targeted goal.
Skip is no stranger to the convenience channel. In August, Ricker’s convenience stores announced it was implementing frictionless checkout technology at 58 convenience stores throughout Indiana through its own partnership with Skip, as Convenience Store Newspreviously reported.
In October, Cherokee, Okla.-based Jiffy Mart unveiled its pact to bring Skip’s platform across its 28 c-stores in central and northwestern Oklahoma.
Savannah, Ga.-based Enmarket followed these moves in November when it revealed it would go live with Skip’s frictionless technology in early 2019. Clinton, Okla.-based Domino Food and Fuel Inc. also tapped Skip for the rollout of frictionless checkout across its 17 Domino convenience stores. The stores are slated to come online this month.
With the rollout to three c-store retailers — Cruizers, Domino and Enmarket — Skip will enter 157 locations this month alone.