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Welcome to 365 Retail Markets' blog designed to keep you informed about self-service retail technology, best practices, FAQs and more.

  • How to prevent loss

    12 Aug 2025

    How to Prevent Loss Without Killing the Shopping Experience

    How do you keep your market open for browsing without opening the door to theft? The right mix of tech and layout can cut shrink while keeping baskets full. Here’s how operators are rethinking security without killing the shopping experience.

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  • Smarter Loss Prevention Technology: 4 Tips to Protect Profits

    8 Aug 2025

    Smarter Loss Prevention Technology: 4 Tips to Protect Profits

    Is theft hurting your profits in unattended retail? Discover how advanced loss prevention technology and unattended retail theft detection solutions can secure your business and protect your bottom line.

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  • 7 Ways Unattended Retail Theft Impacts Your Business

    29 Jul 2025

    7 Ways Unattended Retail Theft Impacts Your Business

    Think you know how unattended retail theft is affecting your business? You might be missing the most costly impacts. From hidden losses to stalled growth, here's what to watch for—and how to fight back with tools built for operators like you.

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  • 4 Challenges Facing Modern Foodservice Operations and How Smart Managers Solve Them

    24 Jul 2025

    4 Challenges Facing Modern Foodservice Operations and How Smart Managers Solve Them

    Hybrid schedules, rising costs, and growing dietary demands are stretching foodservice operations thin. But the biggest challenges operators face today might be easier to solve than you think. Here are 4 problems—and what smart managers are doing about them.

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  • Products to stock in PicoCooler Vision

    8 Jul 2025

    What’s Selling Now in PicoCooler Vision: 2025’s Top Products & What They Tell Us

    With smart coolers continuing to outperform expectations in breakrooms, campuses, and micro markets, it’s clear that understanding what drives sales in this format isn’t just helpful. It’s essential. Take a look at the top-selling products in PicoCoole Vision thus far in 2025.

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  • PicoFreezer Vision in a Univeristy Dorm Room

    30 Jun 2025

    Optimizing Your Locations with 365 Vision Smart Stores Part 2

    Learn how Vision Smart Stores transform high-traffic spaces like gyms, universities, healthcare facilities, and airports by solving urgent customer needs. Maximize your locations’ potential with tailored product mixes that boost convenience and revenue.

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  • Optimizing Your Locations with 365 Vision Smart Stores Part 1 header

    26 Jun 2025

    Optimizing Your Locations with 365 Vision Smart Stores Part 1

    Discover how strategically deploying Vision Smart Stores in apartments, hotels, and office buildings can seamlessly meet your customers' daily needs—turning routine scenarios into opportunities for increased satisfaction and profitability.

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  • Top 5 Reasons Why PicoCooler Vision + Ambient Cabinet Outshines Traditional Vending

    17 Jun 2025

    Top 5 Reasons Why PicoCooler Vision + Ambient Cabinet Outshines Traditional Vending

    Considering vending machine alternatives? Explore why PicoCooler Vision + Ambient Cabinet delivers superior convenience and profits. See your potential gains firsthand with our ROI vending calculator.

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  • 365 Retail Markets & Cantaloupe Inc

    16 Jun 2025

    Cantaloupe, Inc. Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by 365 Retail Markets

    Cantaloupe, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTLP) ("Cantaloupe”), a global technology leader offering end-to-end technology solutions for self-service commerce, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by 365 Retail Markets, LLC ("365"), a leading innovator in unattended retail technologies, in an all-cash transaction with an equity value of approximately $848 million.

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