New Shopping App Ubamarket(TM) Launching to Transform Food Shopping Experience

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New Shopping App Ubamarket(TM) Launching to Transform Food Shopping Experience

LONDON, August 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

     - As a world first for retail, the Ubamarket(TM) app locates, purchases and loyalty

                    tracks a supermarket shop with no need for queues

    - Due for national roll-out in association with leading payment and loyalty solutions

    supplier HTEC Ltd, part of Universe Group Plc, whose portfolio of stores includes

                           Morrisons, Budgens, Nisa and Spar 

    Launching to market today, the app has been developed to launch across HTEC's
extensive group of UK stores in 2016/2017. Ubamarket(TM)'s innovative technology enables
the app to be compatible with any store in the UK within three days of store installation.

    Ubamarket(TM)  (Patent Pending) is launching to market, as 66% of UK shoppers have
said they are frustrated and would potentially stop going to the UK's 10,308 supermarkets
as a result. In a nationally representative survey of over 2,000 UK adults, the following
peeves were cited as the nation's top deterrents from going in-store or shopping online:

    Faults with both online and in-store shopping have seen 12.4 million Brits fed up with
the supermarket experience. National statistics show: 

    Over a quarter of UK consumers highlight grocery shopping as their least favourite
shopping experience 

    17.8 million cited long checkout queues as their top deterrent when buying food
in-store 

    69% of UK adults are looking for a solution to combine online efficiency with the
benefits of the in-store experience   

    App stands to restore a deteriorating grocery retail market, with 4.2 million
millennials already having reduced the amount of online and in-store food shopping they do
and a further 82% who want an online/offline solution  

    Responding to the UK's top in-store peeves, Ubamarket(TM) combines the efficiency of
online retail with the benefits of the in-store experience. The iOS app rearranges the
products on your shopping list according to their location in-store; tracking each item in
order of convenience, total spend, special offers and loyalty points. This is how it
works:

    Step 1 - Input your shopping list into the Ubamarket(TM) app

    Step 2 - Enter the supermarket and the app will rearrange your shopping list as the
items are located in store

    Step 3 - Using the app's scanner, scan item barcodes - including variable barcodes on
weighted products - as you go, keeping track of your spend

    Step 4 - No queues, simply tap your smartphone on a payment point without the need to
unload items to a conveyor belt and re-scan purchases

    Will Broome, Founder & CEO of Ubamarket(TM) said:

    "We as consumers are more demanding than ever! I hope Ubamarket(TM) will be the
saviour of the supermarket, and streamline our shopping experience, whilst boosting the
footfall for retailers.

    Guy Warner, MD of Warner's Budgens Supermarkets commented:  

    "I'm delighted to be the first store in the world to offer Ubamarket(TM) to our Taste
Club members and customers. I feel that this revolutionary new app will effectively bridge
the gap between online convenience and the in-store experience that Warner's Budgens
shoppers enjoy.

     Contact: 

       
         
        Tatiana Withanage - City Road Communications   
        +44(0)207-502-239 

         

     

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