An in-house team at Sainsbury's is developing a smartphone app that lets customers scan shopping items and pay within the app to enable checkout-free shopping. The app, called Checkout Fresh, will be available in stores from next month as part of an initiative by Tesco which has been working with mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple on new ways Sainsbury's recently launched SmartShop, which lets customers scan products with an in-store device or smartphone and pay at a dedicated checkout. Sainsbury's plans to expand this service to up to 50 stores by the end of the year.
An in-house team at Sainsbury's is developing a smartphone app that lets customers scan shopping items and pay within the app to enable checkout-free shopping. Payment by smartphone app, which was first introduced by Amazon Go in the US, is also being tested by Co-op and Budgens in the UK and by German retailer MediaMarktSaturn in Austria. Sainsbury's recently launched SmartShop, which lets customers scan products with an in-store device or smartphone and pay at a dedicated checkout. Sainsbury's plans to expand this service to up to 50 stores by the end of the year.