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Cashierless Checkout Is Coming To Convenience Stores
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:07 am
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:07 am
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Grab your items and leave the store without going to the cashier. That’s the idea behind Standard Cognition, a startup using artificial intelligence to create an autonomous checkout experience. Now, it’s taken the next step in getting that technology into the stores where people shop.
On Tuesday, The San Francisco startup announced a new partnership with Alimentation Couche-Tard, the parent of Circle K among other retail chains, to install its checkout system in convenience stores, beginning with a pilot in Phoenix. The stores will be retrofitted with the technology, meaning that no redesign of the store is necessary, one way Standard Cognition is attempting to differentiate itself from deep-pocketed competitor Amazon Go. The partnership will start at “a number of stores in the Phoenix area,” says Magnus Tagtstrom, head of digital innovation at Couche-Tard, with the first autonomous checkout-equipped Circle K going live early next year.
If the pilot goes well, more retail stores could be encouraged to adopt the AI-powered technology, starting with convenience stores like Circle K. Laval, Canada-headquartered Couche-Tard is the fifth largest convenience store operator globally, according to a Deloitte report. “This is testing with shoppers: What if this was the New Circle K experience?” Tagtstrom says.
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Customers will be able to try out autonomous checkout by checking into the store on a phone app (they can use either the Circle K app or Standard Cognition’s own app, Fisher says). When the customer walks out of the store, the app will process the transaction. Shoppers who don’t want to pay through the app can still save time. The artificial intelligence tracks everything picked up by a customer, regardless of whether they use the app, and feeds the data to the cashier, eliminating the time needed to scan each item.
During the coronavirus pandemic, an autonomous checkout solution provides the obvious added value of avoiding the transmission vectors that come from interacting with the cashier or standing in line. That comes on top of the technology’s baseline potential—to make convenience stores more convenient. “Let’s have our cake and eat it too: get the Snickers bar immediately, and don’t have to wait five minutes in line to pay for it,” Fisher says. “It’s kind of the best of both worlds.”
Muh $15 hourly minimum wage!
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:10 am to stout
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The artificial intelligence tracks everything picked up by a customer, regardless of whether they use the app, and feeds the data to the cashier, eliminating the time needed to scan each item.
YOU PAY! YOU GO NOW!!
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:11 am to stout
The insurance bill for this shite must be astronomical
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:13 am to stout
Didn’t amazon do this already? And they had to stop because people said it was “discriminatory against bankless people”
Yes, that was what they were called.
Yes, that was what they were called.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:13 am to stout
Have they seen the creatures that are the most common types in convenience stores?
Those people wont be able to use an app
Those people wont be able to use an app
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:13 am to stout
Can’t wait for cashierless Foot Locker.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:14 am to stout
BUT what about the peaceful protesters that are simply getting their stuff for reparations?
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:14 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
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Can’t wait for cashierless Foot Locker.
Chicago already has it. Or at least they did Sunday night
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:15 am to stout
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Cashierless Checkout Is Coming
Is this what I have been watching in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, etc.?
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:15 am to stout
Does this mean I won’t have to wait for an idiot to figure out how to ring up propane and then find key for said propane?
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:16 am to IT_Dawg
This seems like it will be excellent for unplanned donations to the movement.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:16 am to Tortious
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Is this what I have been watching in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, etc.?
Kind of with the difference being that you aren't supposed to burn the store down after
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:17 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
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Magnus Tagtstrom, head of digital innovation at Couche-Tard
I am not sure that I want to invest in a concept and process developed by a Couch Tard?
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:19 am to stout
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Kind of with the difference being that you aren't supposed to burn the store down after
Oh okay - I think they need some safety tips in the app/store then to tell those good folks they don't need to run by the scanners for it to work.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:20 am to upgrayedd
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The insurance bill for this shite must be astronomical
I wouldn’t think it’s much different than other places. Cashiers aren’t stopping theft, and are actually most likely trained not to intervene anyways. Shrink is cheaper than worker’s compensation or a lawsuit.
But if you do a membership based system where it’s tied to a preauthorized bank account or card, it would work great.
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Didn’t amazon do this already? And they had to stop because people said it was “discriminatory against bankless people”
Yes, that was what they were called.
Seriously? That’s dumb as shite.
We’d have to close a lot of things if we’re going to call it discriminatory against “bankless people.” Plus, it’s 2020, and prepaid cards have existed for over a decade. That isn’t even a valid complaint when there are easy ways to transfer cash into an electronic payment option.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:20 am to LSUWoodworker
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I am not sure that I want to invest in a concept and process developed by a Couch Tard?
I believe it's pronounced cooch tard. you know, because of the implication
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:22 am to stout
Mandatory masks and no cashiers, this should be the golden age of shoplifting.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:23 am to stout
Sams scan and go app is the tits. All stores need something like this.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:31 am to stout
We already have one of these in my city and have for maybe 7 years. You just drive up, select what you want even cigarettes. Not sure about beer but anything you could get at a circle K you can get at this place. It's basically a gigantic vending machine for snacks.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:32 am to WPBTiger
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Sams scan and go app is the tits. All stores need something like this.
I don't want to do the cashier's job for them. I want to remove that job entirely.
You don't scan shite with Amazon's system. It uses image recognition to see what you're pulling off the shelf. You put stuff in your bag. You walk out the door. That's it. If it's that kind of system, I'm all for it. I'll even pay a premium to shop at stores that use it to avoid the wait in line.
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