TAYLORSVILLE, Utah -- Shop24 Global LLC said that Fairstone at Riverview in Taylorsville, Utah, near Salt Lake City will be the site of one of the very first robotic convenience stores placed in an apartment complex anywhere in the world, and the first in the state of Utah, when it opens later this month.
The store will be owned and operated by longtime c-store veteran, Tony Trotter.
The Shop24 ultra c-store is a self-contained, refrigerated and robotic c-store designed to enable 24x7x365 consumer purchasing.
Originally operated in Europe and the U.S. East Coast, Shop24 dispenses a variety of items such as snacks, cleaning supplies, medicine and even full meals closer for the customer and in a fraction of the time it takes to go to and shop at a traditional c-store, the company said.
The more than nine-foot-tall machine offers up to 200 traditional c-store items ranging in weight from less than 1 ounce to 8 pounds.
Shop24 accepts different methods of payment including cash, credit cards, debit cards and supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) cards 24 hours a day.
"We are extremely proud to be serving such an incredible community as Fairstone at Riverview, as well as helping their residents and families to have many of their favorite items closer and faster than ever before," said Andrew Heflich, regional vice president of Shop 24 Global, Columbus, Ohio. "This is only the first one to go in with this group, and they plan to place additional stores both in Salt Lake City as well as properties in Phoenix. Its definitely what the residents want and need."
As previously reported in CSP Daily News, a Shop24 automated c-store opened in January on the campus of SUNY Cortland in New York and Cal State Fullerton in California last November.
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