AZ

A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions develops and commercializes smart shopping cart and retail automation technologies enabling consumers to scan items during shopping and complete purchases without traditional checkout lines. Headquartered in Israel, A2Z Cust2Mate manufactures smart carts equipped with built-in scanners, scales, payment terminals, and touchscreen displays allowing shoppers to scan products, view running totals, access promotions, and pay directly from carts using credit cards or mobile payments. The company's technology addresses retailer challenges including labor costs associated with cashier staffing, checkout wait times deterring customers, and shoplifting losses from unscanned merchandise, while offering consumers improved shopping experiences eliminating checkout queues. A2Z Cust2Mate targets supermarkets, grocery stores, and mass merchandisers deploying smart cart fleets throughout store locations, typically through leasing arrangements where retailers pay monthly fees per cart rather than purchasing equipment outright. The company reported minimal revenues as commercialization remains early-stage with limited retailer deployments despite conducting pilot programs and demonstrations with grocery chains evaluating technology efficacy. A2Z Cust2Mate faces intense competition from Amazon through its cashierless Just Walk Out technology and Dash Cart products, Instacart's Caper smart carts, and Veeve smart cart systems, plus skepticism from retailers regarding customer adoption rates, technology reliability, and return on investment justifying substantial deployment costs. Recent strategic developments include announcing retail partnerships conducting pilot deployments, refining cart hardware addressing operational feedback, and pursuing fundraising activities securing capital supporting manufacturing scale-up and market expansion. The company operates with substantial operating losses consuming available cash requiring ongoing capital raises through equity offerings diluting shareholders, while facing execution risks including achieving sufficient retail adoption demonstrating commercial viability, manufacturing carts at scale meeting quality and cost targets, and differentiating technology offerings in increasingly competitive markets where well-funded technology companies pursue similar retail automation opportunities.