{"id":129393,"date":"2021-06-19T08:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T08:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=129393"},"modified":"2021-06-19T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T08:52:49","slug":"tesco-but-no-tills-supermarket-to-launch-first-checkout-free-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/tesco-but-no-tills-supermarket-to-launch-first-checkout-free-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco\u2026 but no tills: Supermarket to launch first checkout-free store"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tesco\u2026 but no tills: Supermarket giant will launch its first checkout-free store after successful trials with shoppers able to use an app to scan goods instead<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tesco set to launch first checkout-free store following in Amazon&#8217;s footsteps<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Customers will use an app on their phone to scan the items, before being billed<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Follows a year-long trial of the system at Tesco Express at the supermarket&#8217;s HQ\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tesco will also extend it&#8217;s rapid one-hour delivery trial, to test market demand<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supermarket giant Tesco is set to launch its first checkout-free store following in Amazon&#8217;s footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows successful trials at Tesco&#8217;s head office, which saw shoppers scan items with their phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Payment was then taken\u00a0automatically from the customers account as they walked out the store.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Ken Murphy said the year-long trial at the Express store in the Welwyn Garden City head office had &#8216;worked really well&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ll extend that in the coming weeks and months to test it in a more urban environment&#8217;, he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Machine learning is continuously improving so we feel confident we can put it into another store with a higher traffic.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/19\/09\/44418901-9703389-image-a-53_1624091327263.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Supermarket giant Tesco is set to launch its first checkout-free store where customers scan their items on their phones<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/17\/16\/44349709-9697401-image-a-33_1623943239659.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Tesco then automatically takes payment from the customers account as they walk out the store<\/p>\n<p>Amazon opened its first &#8216;frictionless&#8217; shop in Ealing in March. Shoppers there must identify themselves but scanning a QR code when they enter the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, they are then free to select items &#8211; without having to scan them &#8211; and are billed when they leave the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amazon uses hundreds of cameras, depth-sensors, and AI software to work out which items a customer has taken.<\/p>\n<p>Tesco will ask customers to scan each item they select but it is not yet clear how the supermarket giant intends to prevent stealing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/19\/09\/44418473-9703389-image-a-49_1624089963478.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Amazon opened its first &#8216;frictionless&#8217; shop in Ealing in March (pictured). Shoppers there must identify themselves but scanning a QR code when they enter the store<\/p>\n<p>Murphy laid to rest concerns supermarkets would suffer as non-essential shops, restaurants, and bars reopened.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said easing of restrictions had seen &#8216;a return to more normalised shopping, higher frequency shopping, and smaller basket sizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re also seeing a shift again towards the weekend days being our peak shopping days in terms of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s definitely been a shift back to eating out but there continues to be a strong demand for eating at home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As a consequence, things like beer, wine and spirits have stayed remarkably strong.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy said good weather and the Euro 2020 football tournament have also helped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/19\/08\/44418311-9703389-image-a-22_1624089504516.jpg\" height=\"492\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Ken Murphy\u00a0said the year-long trial at the Express store in the Welwyn Garden City head office had &#8216;worked really well&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added the supermarket&#8217;s sales grew by 0.5 per cent to \u00a310billion this year, up 9.3 per cent on the same quarter in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy said online sales also remained strong, with demand for home cooking and baking products up 20 per cent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The supermarket giant has also announced plants to extend\u00a0a one-hour delivery trial as it tests consumers&#8217; appetite for the service, its boss said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid delivery is the latest frontier in the battle for grocery shoppers&#8217; cash.<\/p>\n<p>A raft of new firms, including Weezy, Getir, Dija and Gorillas, are offering deliveries within 15 minutes of ordering, prompting traditional supermarket groups to rethink their business models.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tesco piloted its &#8216;Whoosh&#8217; service to postcodes around its Express store in Wolverhampton in central England and has now rolled out the trial to 11 more stores, Murphy told reporters after updating on first-quarter trading. read more<\/p>\n<p>All items are delivered by bike, moped or car, with a \u00a35 delivery fee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ll keep testing and learning from this as well as the trial we&#8217;re doing in more than 260 One Stop stores with Deliveroo,&#8217; Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/19\/08\/44418231-9703389-image-a-39_1624089590779.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Friday, Tesco&#8217;s chief executive also called on the government to make a deal with the EU on the Northern Ireland Protocol and provide clarity over potential supply chain issues<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Friday, the chief executive also called on the government to make a deal with the EU on the Northern Ireland Protocol and provide clarity over potential supply chain issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also said the supermarket giant does not expect to see major changes to stores following a trade agreement with Australia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;We have really strong supply chain partners and most of those partners are local to us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re British suppliers or Irish suppliers and therefore we don&#8217;t really anticipate any change from our perspective.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9703389\/Tesco-no-tills-Supermarket-giant-launch-checkout-free-store.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesco\u2026 but no tills: Supermarket giant will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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