hubz Announces New Smart Cooler, The Next Stage of Unattended Retail

San Antonio, Tx, December, 2020 – hubz, a product line specializing in smart, unattended retail points of sale, announced its new hubz cooler – helping operators embrace the next step of unattended retail solutions. The hubz cooler offers a secure way to help operators sell any product, anywhere, anytime. hubz is a partnership between smart retail leaders Parlevel Systems, Shekel Brainweigh, and Imbera.

The hubz cooler is a smart, unattended retail point of sale that empowers operators to maximize product offerings in a wide array of locations. The hubz cooler is highly secure and can only be opened when a customer presents a payment method. Powered by Product Aware Technology – an innovative array of IoT load sensors, advanced machine learning algorithms and powerful management tools – the solution is truly smart, as it detects exactly which product customers select and accurately charges them as they close the hubz cooler. While the hubz cooler is open, customers can easily browse products, select multiple products, and put back previously selected SKUs. Customers are informed of their selections in real time via an interactive touchscreen, charged the corresponding amount, and provided with a detailed receipt. The hubz cooler offers a wide and flexible range of products to be shown and sold. Through the hubz cooler, businesses can tap into locations that are underserved by traditional unattended retail like vending machines or micro markets.

The hubz cooler helps businesses offer ultimate convenience. Unbound from strict requirements regarding product and place, businesses can sell any good in any location. The secure, unattended nature of the product makes it ideal for medical centers, shared office spaces, hotels, convenience stores, shopping malls, transit stations, building lobbies, apartment complexes, colleges, and more. Through the hubz cooler, companies can bring unattended retail into untapped locations – those of high traffic and highly transient customers. hubz cooler meets customers’ growing demand for fresh, healthy, and diverse products through unattended retail points of sale. hubz coolers are controlled by a powerful management system driving businesses to maximize inventory efficiency, optimize service, and increase space-to-sales. Businesses can effectively manage their hubz hardware side-by-side with traditional vending machines, micro markets, and office coffee business lines.

“The hubz cooler is an excellent point of sale for any company trying to expand their business to reach new customers in new locations” said Luis P Gonzalez, CEO at Parlevel Systems. “The product is easy to use, easy to maintain and incredibly customer friendly. The hubz cooler balances high tech with easy accessibility at a price point that makes the business proposition very attractive to many different organizations.”

“The hubz cooler utilizes Shekel Brainweigh’s Product Aware technology, providing unprecedented accurate product recognition, enabling real time frictionless shopping experience, and encouraging a flexible variety of product mix” said Udi Wiesner, General Manager of the Retail Innovation Division at Shekel Brainweigh. “The hubz cooler combines  the best of breed functionalities of intelligent vending and micro markets, helping operators to provide the ultimate customer experience with major contribution to their operational excellence.”

The hubz product line will continue adding points of sale to its line of smart stores such as a smart cabinet, smart shelving units, and hybrid solutions to offer businesses maximum versatility. The hubz product line helps businesses enter the smart unattended retail space with a small barrier to entry regarding low cost and swift training – leading to high earning potential, rapid ROI, and exceptional customer service. hubz has been awarded Intel Market Ready Solution recognition as part of Intel IoT Solutions Alliance. hubz is expected to be available during Q12021, initially marketed in North American markets and later expanded to other global regions. hubz is a partnership between industry leaders Parlevel Systems, Shekel Brainweigh, and Imbera.

For more information on hubz visit www.hubzstores.com/

About Parlevel  

Based in San Antonio, Texas, Parlevel Systems delivers growth, savings, and control through the power of service and innovation. Founded by successful vending and technology professionals, Parlevel provides operators around the world with the tools necessary to succeed and better serve their customers. Parlevel utilizes customer support technology and a dedicated customer success team to ensure efficient implementation, training, and systems adoption. For more information on Parlevel visit https://www.parlevelsystems.com/

About Shekel Brainweigh

Shekel Brainweigh Ltd. is a holding company traded in the ASX:SBW. The company includes Shekel Scales, a well-established technology market leader providing for more than 40 years digital weighing solutions mainly self-checkout systems to the retail markets through leaders such as Fujitsu, Toshiba, Diebold-Nixdorf and others. Following recent years retail market disruption, the company has reinvented itself joining retail-tech entrepreneurs and developed its unique “Product Aware Technology”. Integrating patented IoT load sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies the Retail Innovation Division enables frictionless and autonomous retail solutions. The company has evolved into a retail technology leader transforming a retail shelf into a source of enlightening insights with its best in the market product recognition solution, able to identify a product by its IoT load sensors. That enables store automation, operational efficiency, effective inventory management and enhancing shopping experience. To learn more about the company, visit https://www.shekelbrainweigh.com/retail/

About Imbera

Imbera is a world leader in the commercial refrigeration industry. Dedicated since 1941 to the design, development and manufacture of commercial refrigeration equipment, it is the only company with scope in the entire American continent that offers both the sale and the integral maintenance of commercial coolers. For more information, visit https://www.imberacooling.com/global/imbera