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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 11:15 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 11:22 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 11:38 am to stout
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The artificial intelligence tracks everything
frick that
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:38 am to stout
Aka grab your candy and just walk outta the store
They got insurance....
They got insurance....
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:41 am to stout
shite like this will go real smooth up in NBR'r.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:41 am to stout
If it means I don't have to stand behind Lequeefa buying her lottery tickets I am all for it.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:58 am to stout
I haven't been inside a convenience store in years.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 12:09 pm to stout
Well I sure hope the computers are programmed to tell people to put their masks on.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 12:09 pm to stout
Been to a couple Racetracks that have them already. So nice to not have to interrupt the real cashier during her speaker-phone phone call.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 12:12 pm to stout
quote:I thought this was an Onion/Bee joint op.
Magnus Tagtstrom, head of digital innovation at Couche-Tard
Couche in French means "layer".
Couche-Tard would then correctly apply to the general population of Arkansas.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 12:14 pm to stout
All I can think after reading this.
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