A Paris Baguette outlet in Seoul / Newsis
SPC Group, a significant South Korean meals and beverage firm, stated Friday its bakery model Paris Baguette has opened 24-hour hybrid shops geared up with an unmanned working system, marking the primary such transfer within the native bakery business.
Paris Baguette’s two hybrid retailers in Seoul function with on-site employees throughout daytime hours and change to an unmanned system late at evening and within the early morning, enabling gross sales with out time restrictions, SPC stated in a press launch.
As is the case with unmanned comfort shops and side-dish retailers, prospects can enter the shop throughout unmanned hours by way of a bank card authentication course of and make purchases by scanning product barcodes at kiosks.
“Beginning in 2026, we’ll steadily undertake the hybrid retailer mannequin nationwide, specializing in city areas with excessive late-night foot visitors,” an organization official stated.
Since 2004, SPC has expanded the Paris Baguette model to fifteen international locations. The variety of its abroad retailers has just lately surpassed 700, whereas home shops complete about 3,400.
The group at the moment operates industrial bakeries in China and Malaysia and commenced building of its third abroad industrial bakery in the USA in September.
