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 Natalie Dunn 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.
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.