Business View Magazine | March 2019

95 didn’t want to turn back. The participation level probably doubled, if not tripled, with this new type of technology. And that’s what made us successful; the marketplace had grown from one, when we first opened the first one, to over 30,000 in the workplace.” Hessling adds that 365 Retail Markets is con- stantly innovating and coming up with new products and services. “In the next few months, we will release a new, smaller terminal,” he states. “It’s even smaller than a tablet, so that’s something that we expect to be out in the market with more points of purchase within building locations, rather than one central one. You can also look for some very interesting technologies similar to Amazon Go (a chain of convenience stores that are partially-automat- ed, with customers able to purchase products without being checked out by a cashier or using a self-checkout station), with computer vision, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and things of that nature. We have also part- nered with a company called Advana, which is going to bring product promotions and prod- uct advertisements within these stores, to be able to help consumers make decisions on the products that they choose and buy. We have over 2,000,000 daily users of our system, so we should be leveraging that to help brands get their message across.” Hessling believes that within the next several years, the world will move more and more