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23–24 September 2026 · ExCeL London · Kineto Insights For the first time in 17 years, Parcel+Post Expo comes back to London on 23 and 24 September 2026 at ExCeL, and the timing could not be better. For two days, the people shaping the future of parcel, postal, and e-commerce logistics gather under one roof. […]

Somewhere in your warehouse right now, a pallet is sitting in the wrong aisle. An order is marked “in stock” that is not. A shipment is waiting on a dock that no one has scanned in three hours. None of it shows up on a screen, and that is exactly the problem. These are blind […]

You didn’t lose money on the warehouse. You didn’t lose it on the long-haul truck. You lost it in the last three miles. Here’s the uncomfortable math every logistics operator is waking up to in 2026: the shortest leg of the journey now devours the biggest share of the budget. The final mile accounts for […]

Your customer starts on Instagram, checks a price on your app, walks past your store, and finishes the order on a laptop at midnight. Then they expect one thing: their parcel, exactly when and where they want it. If your fulfillment can’t keep up with that journey, you don’t lose the sale later: you lose […]

Ask any restaurant operator what keeps them up at night and the answers rhyme: thin margins, hard-to-fill shifts, rising food costs, and guests who expect faster, smoother service every single visit. What’s changing isn’t the pressure; it’s the tools available to answer it. Over the next six months, the restaurant management system stops being a […]

Walk into any procurement conversation for self-service technology and you’ll hear the same assumption: a kiosk is a kiosk. Touchscreen, payment module, printer, scanner, a sturdy enclosure. On a spec sheet, most machines look almost identical. So if the hardware is essentially commoditized, what are serious players in the industry actually competing on, and why […]

Most online businesses don’t lose customers at checkout. They lose them somewhere between “Order Confirmed” and “Delivered”, in the invisible gap where fulfillment happens. And too often, the decisions made in that gap are based on myths, not facts. At Kineto, we work with brands that are scaling fast, and we keep seeing the same […]

“Shopping habits have quietly rewritten the rulebook. The customer who once waited in line, called a support number, or accepted a two-week delivery window now expects the store to move at the speed of their phone. In 2026, retail technology is no longer a nice-to-have sitting behind the counter, it is the experience itself. […]

Smart lockers are moving from convenience to core last-mile infrastructure. “The first half of 2026 has made one thing clear: smart lockers have moved from a “nice-to-have” convenience to core last-mile infrastructure. What started as a way to solve missed doorstep deliveries has evolved into a multi-purpose network powering returns, storage, retail pickup, and even […]