The report evaluates the vendors based on established reputation offering POS software solutions in the grocery and food store segment of the retail industry, with significant revenue from grocery and food store retailers and a significant presence among enterprise-size retail operators.

We believe this recognition underscores GK Software’s commitment to delivering cloud-native, AI-driven, omnichannel POS solutions for Tier 1 retailers in grocery and food store retailers worldwide. As a vendor in the Leaders’ Category, we believe GK Software demonstrates proven outcomes for global enterprises. From its MACH architecture unified commerce platform and AI at scale to SCO, BYOD, and industry self-scanning.

We believe Grocery retail is undergoing a fundamental shift. As Filippo Battaini, Research Manager at IDC Retail Insights, puts it: "Grocery POS is no longer a checkout technology; it is the operational core of the modern store. The vendors that are pulling ahead have built open, composable platforms in which AI, loss prevention, payments, and food service capabilities converge on a shared foundation, giving retailers the freedom to build differentiated experiences without being constrained by their technology stack."

Why does this matter for enterprise retail?

Today’s high-volume, multi-format retailers need more than a modern POS—they need a composable, cloud-native transaction platform that scales globally, respects data sovereignty, and runs reliably at the edge when connectivity fails.

The IDC MarketScape highlighted four strengths including:

• Internationalization and fiscal compliance at scale
  GK CLOUD4RETAIL’s country pack model delivers compliance across 65+ countries as a continuously maintained core product, with multi-country deployments in Africa, Europe, Eastern Europe, and Latin America providing unmatched localization evidence.
• Cloud-native MACH architecture and multi-vertical flexibility
  Kubernetes orchestration, six extension layers, and 400+ REST APIs support grocery, fuel, pharmacy, hospitality, and specialty formats on a single platform instance without separate integration layers.
• Integrated AI and data portfolio
  GK AIR’s 25+ years of retail-specific machine learning processes 50 million recommendations per hour, complemented by GK Engage’s composable loyalty and hyper-personalization.
• Growing partner ecosystem
  Strategic alliances with SAP, Microsoft, AWS, and Adyen; innovation partnerships; and a network of certified implementation partners extend GK’s delivery capacity and accelerate retailer time to value.

“It is a pleasure to see our continuous investment in a flexible, open, MACH-based platform, and in capabilities like AI-driven personalisation, CV based fraud detection, global fiscal compliance, and unified commerce- recognised by IDC MarketScape in this way. We believe this is a testament to the hard work of the entire GK team and the trust our customers and partners place in us every day”, comments Orit Bar-Ad, GK Chief Innovation Evangelist | SVP.
To learn more about GK’s product portfolio and our project, please contact us: https://www.gk-software.com/us/contact-gk

SOURCE: "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale Software in Grocery and Food Store Retail 2026 Vendor Assessment", May 2026, IDC #US52989526.

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