Supermarket trials system that will banish the checkout
Last week it was paint and paint brushes, next week who knows what specials Aldi will offer. But it has a strong following and manages to keep its name in the news. Now, there's a report that an Aldi store in London is trialling technology that will allow customers to skip the tedium of piling the shopping on the conveyor then piling it back in the trolley or shopping bags.
How? A smartphone app that will replace the checkout.
Here's how Aldi says the system will work:
- Scan a smartphone app to enter the store.
- Collect groceries.
- Leave the store and wait for the email receipt.
- Customers will be charged automatically using their chosen payment method.
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The trial currently involves only Aldi employees, but management says it plans to involve members of the public.
Aldi has trialled self-serve checkouts in some stores across NSW since June, but the smartphone technology is so far restricted to UK trials. The New Daily says it contacted Aldi for comment, but hasn't received a response.
Do you understand how this technology would work? Would you trust it?
you don't have a mobile that's smarter than you?
Then you must have this one LOL
can't hear? that's ok , get a vibrating phone, put it under your hat and each time it vibrates, it will knock some sense into you
Screw them, same reason - distrust. Besides I don't have a mobile that is smarter than me LOL. Pointless me having one as I can not hear who is talking to me. I can hear a voice but its not audible.
People rely on too much digital products. One that is even more scary and this I saw a week ago. At the Denture clinic and I can read lips okay - staff said to a man about 55 - 60, "No I need your Bupa or Medicare". The guy said something who has his back to me. He lifts up some foldable object that opens like a book, and says something and the staff says "yes that one". Next thing is the guy stretches his arm forward into the zone of the staff member who I thought he was going to hit and says loudly "this way I don't need to remember my pin". You are joking - auschwitz numbered. This idiot has a microchip embeded in his forearm.