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News ReleaseMay 13, 2026

Three Elements of Future Stores: Customer Experience, Self-Service, Dark Store

Retail is evolving as fast as ever under labor shortages and rising expectations. Customer experience, self-service, and dark stores are the three forces defining what stores become next.

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News ReleaseJun. 18, 2025

66% of Americans are Making Purchases Earlier than Planned, Due to Tariffs or Other Concerns, According to New Position Imaging/Harris Poll Survey

A Harris Poll survey finds tariff worries pushing Americans to buy sooner, with most preferring to purchase big-ticket items in-store over risking home delivery.

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News ReleaseMay 6, 2025

Ned Hill: Pioneering the Future of Retail with Position Imaging

From a virtual dog fence to AI-powered retail platforms, Ned Hill's career shows how position-tracking technology can transform last-mile logistics and the way consumers shop.

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News ReleaseJan. 10, 2025

Position Imaging Showcases iPickup^® Retail Platform as Self-Serve eCommerce Fulfillment Solution at NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show

At Retail's Big Show in New York, iPickup demonstrates automated BOPIS and BORIS transactions that free staff from the pickup counter and finish in 15 seconds or less.

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News ReleaseSep. 19, 2024

Self-Service BOPIS and Other Retail Trends

Online habits are pulling shoppers away from stores, and technology like self-service BOPIS is how retailers bring omnichannel customers back through their doors.

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News ReleaseAug. 7, 2024

The Right Retail Tech Investment Starts with the Shopper

At the Smart Retail Expo, Ned Hill argued that technology investments only pay off when they start with shopper needs, and showed the innovations that prove it.

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News ReleaseJul. 31, 2024

Visionary Ventures: Ned Hill’s Journey from Startup Struggles to Tech Success

On the Category Visionaries podcast, Ned Hill recalls the invisible dog fence that started his journey and the vision that led him to found Position Imaging in 2006.

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News ReleaseMay 7, 2024

The Emergence of the Omnichannel Shopper

Pandemic-era online shopping created a customer who moves fluidly between channels and would rather handle pickups and returns themselves than wait at a service counter.

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Position Imaging CEO Ned Hill accepting an award on stage at the 2023 Multifamily Innovation Summit

News ReleaseJan. 9, 2024

Position Imaging CEO Ned Hill Wins ‘Tech Innovator of the Year’ at the Multifamily Innovation^® Summit

The Multifamily Innovation Summit honors the Smart Package Room, recognizing how its AI and computer vision take the friction out of package management for residential properties.

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Inside a Position Imaging Smart Package Room: camera-monitored shelving units holding parcels

News ReleaseOct. 19, 2023

Position Imaging secures $30M funding to support growth and market expansion

IP-based debt financing from GT Investment Partners backs expansion into retail, hospitality, and travel markets, plus growth into the EU through global partners.

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News ReleaseOct. 7, 2023

Position Imaging Flips the Script on Package Management with AI-Driven Computer Vision

No lockers, no staff: the Smart Package Room manages deliveries in multifamily, office, and retail buildings entirely through patented AI-driven computer vision.

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News ReleaseDec. 11, 2022

Making Something From Nothing: Ned Hill On How To Go From Idea To Launch

In a wide-ranging interview, Ned Hill shares hard-won lessons on choosing the right investors, building products, and growing Position Imaging from a raw idea into a funded company.

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Position Imaging package pickup station in a Timpson store: staff stocking a parcel and a UPS driver scanning at the kiosk

News ReleaseSep. 21, 2022

The Timpson Group Installs Position Imaging’s iPickup UPS Access Point To its first retail store—Simplifying Courier Package Pickup and Drop-Off (PUDO)

The UK's leading service retailer brings the AI-based iPickup Courier Access Point to its stores, giving customers fast, self-service courier package pickup and drop-off.

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