LONDON, UK Shekel AI and Scobie McIntosh Group have officially been awarded Best Automated Retail Solution at The Vendies 2026 for the Innovendi Elite Smart Cooler.

Actively addressing the UK’s £7.9 billion annual retail theft crisis and 132,000 hospitality vacancies, this joint partnership delivers a commercially viable, secure micro-market solution. The Innovendi Elite is powered by patented WeightAI™ precision sensing technology, mapping shelves to an accuracy of < 1 square cm to deliver a 99.9% accurate transaction rate with practically zero shrinkage. Engineered with absolute privacy-by-design, the system uses zero cameras and requires no facial recognition or biometric tracking—offering UK operators a highly secure, regulatory-compliant alternative to error-prone visual monitoring systems while simultaneously driving 2.7x higher transaction values than traditional vending.