Stuzo Launches Future Vision Insights Platform for the Fuel Retail and Convenience Industry

PHILADELPHIA, January 29, 2019 (Newswire.com) - Stuzo, the leading provider of personalized, frictionless commerce technology solutions, powered by its Open Commerce Platform, software services, and insights platforms, announced today the launch of its third fuel retail and convenience insights platform, Future Vision Insights Platform.

Building on the work of its Market Insights Platform wherein Stuzo focuses on gaining a deep understanding into the digital capabilities of the top 100 fuel retail and convenience brands in the US, and on the work of its Consumer Insights Platform wherein Stuzo generates a deep understanding of the aggregate wants and needs of fuel retail and convenience consumers across the US, Stuzo is demonstrating how changes in the market, consumer behavior, and technology will converge and lead to new business opportunities, transformation, and disruption within the fuel retail and convenience industry.

Stuzo assembled a team of research analysts, 3D designers, 2D designers, 3D animators, and product strategists to conduct a deep analysis into the current state of the fuel retail and convenience industry as well as trends that are shaping how technology and software will power business in the immediate and near-term future.

To inform the creation of its Future Vision concepts, Stuzo's Future Vision Platform team performed extensive analyses on:

• Technology cost curves, including energy supply chain, battery capacity, and more
• Technology convergence, including the intersection of retail categories such as fuel retail and convenience, restaurant/QSR, grocery, banking, pharmacy, and more
• Business model innovation, including the subscriptionization of commerce and transportation-as-a-service
• Product innovation, including electric vehicle (EV), battery, and autonomous technologies
• Technology adoption s-curves, including the inflection point for when autonomous EV ridesharing (the next major innovation coming to consumer transportation) becomes less expensive and more convenient compared to purchasing or leasing a car

Stuzo has produced the following three (3) Future Vision concepts, presenting an in-depth, realistic look into futuristic environments - all powered by technology.

1. Urban Convenience Center of the Future (co-sponsored in partnership with Bank of America Merchant Services)
2. Suburban Convenience & Energy Center of the Future
3. Autonomous Fleet & On-Demand Convenience of the Future

Stuzo will unveil new Future Vision concepts throughout 2019 and continues to make significant investments in its three fuel retail and convenience Insights Platforms to:

• Inform Stuzo's software product roadmap and software services solutions
• Enable Stuzo to deliver higher performing retail commerce technology solutions for its clients
• Empower Stuzo's clients and industry partners with high-value insights that inform strategic digital transformation decisions
• Accelerate the adoption of digital commerce across the fuel retail and convenience industry

Stuzo's in-depth Future Vision Insights Platform research, data, and concepts are available exclusively for Stuzo's fuel retail and convenience clients and partners at www.cstorefuturevision.com.

Stuzo offers Insights Platform Briefings for fuel retail and convenience operators at no charge. To schedule your briefing, contact Sandra Sydlik, Head of Research, at sandra.sydlik@stuzo.com.

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Press Contact: Aaron McLean, COO, Stuzo

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About Stuzo
Stuzo is the leading provider of personalized, frictionless commerce solutions for retailers, powered by software products, software services, and insights platforms. Stuzo's services include digital product strategy, product design, and product engineering.

About Stuzo's Open Commerce^SMPlatform

Open Commerce is an enterprise grade cloud-based platform that offers a set of modules to empower rapid delivery and real-time operationalization of Digital Services and Commerce Experiences.

• Open Commerce Application Server is a PCI DSS Level 1 Certified Compliant middleware that securely unifies and exposes best-in-class Digital Services (ie., POS providers, site systems, digital coupon platforms, payment processors, mobile wallets, private label credit card providers, loyalty platform providers, private label debit card providers, identity and fraud management, etc.) into one central point-of-interface via a public API to empower merchants and their vendors to rapidly and efficiently deliver connected commerce applications across digital channels (ie., mobile, web, kiosk, wearables, IoT, connected car, augmented reality, conversational UI, etc.).
• Open Commerce Command Center is a web-based portal that centralizes and operationalizes the key functions and data of Digital Services from multiple vendors into one interface with dashboards and workflows (ie. quality of service, automated monitoring and alerting, store setup and performance, loyalty and offer creation, fraud prevent rules, etc.) that empower merchants to in real-time monitor, manage, and optimize mission-critical programs powered by multiple third-party services.

About Stuzo's Insights Platforms

Stuzo's Insights Platforms include:

• Market Insights, the most comprehensive research on the digital capabilities of the top 100 US Fuel Retail and Convenience store brands (published at www.cstoredigitalranking.com).
• Consumer Insights, the most comprehensive ethnographic research on the habits of consumers, having been compiled via a cross-country road trip where Stuzo amassed 240+ hours of customer interviews and conversations at 70 top US fuel and convenience brands (published at www.cstoreconsumerinsights.com).
• Future Vision Insights, the most in-depth and realistic 3D fuel/energy and convenience site concepts, featuring depictions of how digital transformation and industry disruption will shape the future of the industry (published at www.cstorefuturevision.com).

Source: Stuzo