Convenience store

You own a bustling café in Tokyo. Every morning, customers line up for their favorite coffee, but your old cash register can’t keep up. Transactions take forever, the receipt printer jams constantly, and you have no idea which pastries are selling best. Sound familiar? This is where a modern POS terminal comes to the rescue....

“Our on-premise POS systems were installed seven years ago, and now they’re falling apart. Store A would run out of bestsellers while Store B was overstocked with the same items. Customers complained about long checkout lines because our systems were so slow. I spent hours every night manually consolidating sales reports from each location, and...

Picture this: You walk into your favorite coffee shop on a busy Monday morning. You order the usual latte, tap her phone to pay, and receive a text with a receipt—all in under 30 seconds. Meanwhile, the barista’s screen automatically updates the inventory (one less cup, less milk), tracks your loyalty points, and sends sales...

A leading Japanese retail chain operating a network of over 2000 stores in Japan and over 3250 stores worldwide convenience stores faced challenges with its outdated goods procurement management system. Having been in use for over a decade, the system struggled with scalability, leading to inconsistencies in inventory data and potential data loss while goods/stock...

A POS system is an essential tool for retail businesses, streamlining transactions and reducing customer wait times at checkout. However, AI-powered POS systems go beyond traditional payment processing. With machine learning capabilities, AI can enhance POS systems by over 50%, optimizing efficiency and data utilization, providing valuable insights into customer behavior, inventory management, and security.​...

The client operated approximately 200 convenience stores. Managers felt like they would inevitably be left behind if they kept on sticking to the old-fashioned way. They, therefore, decided on digital transformation (DX), starting with a new work schedule management system using advanced technology. This case study will give a telling example of digital transformation in...

The client operated a chain of convenience stores, which was using a paper point card system. This brought up several issues: The card gets wet easily in bad weather, and it is not environmentally friendly since it requires a lot of paper. The client, therefore, decided to switch to a digital accumulating points system, which...

In this case study, we will explore how a big convenience store chain can successfully modernize their outdated system while maintaining their daily operations smoothly with VTI’s IT outsourcing services. A leading retail & convenience company in Japan For a long time, company M – a retail giant in Japan, has been famous for adopting cutting-edge...

Do you know that major chains like FamilyMart have announced strategies for the new era, planning to expand unmanned convenience stores to 1,000 locations. CP All operates approximately 12,000 locations, including 7-11 franchises, in Thailand and Southeast Asia. The global scale of convenience stores from these major players alone reaches well over 100,000 locations with...

Description B2C mobile application, serving 40,000 users in first phase and millions in later phase. Features Main features: ※ eCommerce. ※ Loyalty. Using microservices architecture leveraging Kubernetes on AWS for nearly unlimited scalability. Technology EKS, Aurora DB, Prometheus, Grafana (monitoring), Splunk (logging).