Checkoutless supermarkets: shopping without a checkout

YouAnd then a moment threatens when the handcuffs do not click, but a polite employee stops you and asks why the purchase was not paid. We just left the supermarket. Mind you, with a full shopping bag. This is weird. We were not stopped and we were not shoplifters, because the purchase was made in a cashless supermarket, which can be left without a final checkout, because the removed goods are recorded by sensors and cameras. Amazon opened the first store of its kind to the public in Seattle in 2018 after a trial run for employees. Amazon Go was a small store with an area of ​​only 110 square meters with an acceptable assortment. At that time, the billing system could serve a maximum of 20 customers at the same time in the store.

Meanwhile, Amazon has expanded its Seattle store to 2,300 square feet and built dozens of cashless stores in America. Eight will close on April 1, but the concept is largely on track, the report said. An internet group also has a year-long presence in London called Amazon Fresh. Now many others are following suit. Over the past few weeks, Rewe has opened checkout-free supermarkets called Pick & Go in Berlin, Cologne and Munich. Netto used the same name for the first branch in Munich’s Schwabing district. Aldi Nord has launched Shop & Go pilot projects in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and in London. Lidl and Kaufland are testing the “Shop Box” and “Collect Box”.

Source: Frantfurter Allgemeine

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