Many supermarkets have evaluated and are evaluating Alternative solutions for its customers: There are those who do not give up the traditional checkout, there are those who offer the possibility of scanning the products independently at the checkout, those who instead give the customer a portable barcode scanner, and now there are those who who have done this I removed all of that relies on artificial intelligence.
Actually in the historic center of Verona the first was inaugurated Tuesday Conad “Grab&Go”which offers its customers the followingunusual experience or at least unpublished: You can do your normal shopping without having to hand over the products to the checkout or without anyone physically supervising, but everything just happens delegated to an AI.
So far we have seen the use of artificial intelligence in a variety of ways: from the generation of images and texts to the Beatles’ new single, in short: AI is becoming more and more present in people’s lives, but we didn’t think it could come this far Management of a supermarket analyze consumer habits and the range required for the point of sale in such a short time.
The Operation is very “simple”: the customer enters the supermarket and takes the products he wants (or puts them away if he changes his mind) while a Sensor system sends the artificial intelligence an identifier assigned to the person, which assigns all the products they have consumed, Respect privacy and anonymization of data.
Atexit There is a totem where Pay your own expenses with maps, smartphone or app: i Cash is not allowed. After payment, a QR code is generated allowing the customer to leave the store and receive a virtual receipt.
However, that is The staff will not disappear from the supermarket: In addition to the employees responsible for normal shelf restocking, there will be employees responsible for assisting customers with any problems or misunderstandings with the new product.
