Morrisons plans shops with no checkouts

Morrisons is testing supermarkets with no checkouts or personnel that would let clients just walk out with their bag of browsing in a go to rival Amazon’s Refreshing stores.

The grocer, which is the issue of a multi-billion pound takeover tussle, has been testing the idea known internally as Project Sarah at its Bradford head office environment. The retail store is open up to thousands of personnel and the FTSE 100 retailer options to broaden the notion much more greatly.

Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket is doing the job with US technologies company AiFi, which utilizes cameras to track the objects clients select up and put in their baskets, and expenses them through a smartphone app.

A source close to Morrisons explained the technologies had worked well at its pilot retail store, with “a couple much more in flight. The tech by itself is phenomenal, which utilizes cameras fairly than weights – it has been pretty smooth”.

The options have been initial noted by the Mail on Sunday.

Amazon has pioneered supermarkets that lack tills, launching its Amazon Refreshing stores in the US and bringing the idea to the British isles in March with a retail store in Ealing.