Tesco is slightly different. Their version requires customers to present their items to a self-checkout station, but the items do not need to be individually scanned, but instead provide a final confirmation of the order via the high-level security in the store, and then confirm the list on their Tesco app.
The company explained the process in a press release on November 23rd, which reads:
Tesco is trialing an exciting new technology innovation that means customers don’t need to scan their items at the checkout on self-service tills.
Customers at the Tesco Fulham Reach Express will be able to just walk up to the scan-free checkout and it will magically present them with a list of the products they have picked up, so they don’t have to spend any time scanning each item. They can check the list and then pay in the usual way.
There is no need to download or use the Tesco Grocery App to take advantage of the scan-free checkouts.
The cutting-edge technology is currently only available at the single GetGo store in Fulham and is part of a range of checkout solutions available to customers to make their shopping experience easier.
The three other GetGo stores are located at High Holborn, London; Chiswell St, London and Aston University in Birmingham. They all offer a mobile GetGo option, where customers just pick items, scan the app and walk out, as well as traditional self-service or attended tills.
Customers who currently use the checkout-free option at the GetGo stores are sent a receipt for their purchases within a few minutes of leaving the store, but shoppers also always have the option to pay with cash at an attended till in each GetGo store.
The new scan-free option at Fulham Reach is a further option for customers who want to save time at the self-service till.
They just need to stand in front of the till and press ‘Get Started’ before checking their items and paying with a card. Colleagues will be on hand to help customers with any issues.
We are constantly searching for the perfect formula to make the shopping trip as seamless and convenient as possible. This trial of scan-free checkouts will add another option for customers in Fulham Reach to save time on scanning items and will reduce queuing in store.
We will be watching closely to see how customers react to this potential new option of having a list of their shopping presented to them automatically.
Sarah Quiggin, Head of Store Customer Experience, Tesco, said
Cited by Daily Mail, some British customers think the idea is great and much more convenient. For example, Charlie Hazlem, 28, a technician who lives nearby and has already shopped at this location multiple times already, said:
I think it’s great, it’s very convenient. I haven’t really thought about the impact it might have on staff, I guess there are still other roles that people can do that are needed in stores like this.
The first time I saw this type of paying system was in Uniqlo, the clothes store. I was absolutely mind-blown by it and how it made everything so much simpler.
But, overall, I think it should be rolled lout to more stores now to speed things up.
Jordan Appleyard, 24, an accountant who has lived for three months in the development near the Tesco, told the outlet:
I think this new way of paying is a good thing. I think more Express stories should have this, it makes things far simpler and more convenient.
I don’t notice the cameras too much. I guess it could be a bit creepy having them track all your movements, but it speeds things up at the end of the day. I think it also might deter shoplifters more, knowing that cameras are tracking you all the time.
The cameras don’t worry me too much, I hardly notice it and I think if you only pop into the store now and again it wouldn’t bother you at all. There are cameras everywhere now.
James Murfin, 45, a CEO of a business and who lives nearby, said: “The cameras don’t bother me honestly. There are a lot of CCTV cameras in this area anyway, I think everyone is just used to it now.”
But this tech has not been smooth sailing. Emily South, 27, an events manager who lives in the area, said:
I tried out the new scanning system and it didn’t work for me.
I didn’t get a receipt, and you need one with a separate barcode to get out of the store. The staff had to help me to leave. I hadn’t used this before so it was interesting to see how it worked.
When it works, I guess this would be very convenient and making shopping so much quicker. The cameras don’t bother me, but I haven’t really thought about staff losing their jobs or being replaced.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Boy, don’t you just love seeing this people complicit with living in the digital rat cage? My ‘o my are they fools.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs 26:16
Lazy people have answers for everything, and will always spend more effort trying to defend their slothfulness than actually doing the work; but we’ve gotten so ridiculous now to the point where even scanning your own items at the self-checkout is viewed as a nuisance and a chore, and “inconvenient.”
Of course, this is clearly paving the way for social credit scores, and eventually the mark of the beast itself (Revelation 13:16-18).
The WinePress has covered other similar instances to this already springing-up around the world:
- Amazon’s Just Walk Out And Palm Reading Payment Stores See Growth In Acceptance In US
- Dublin Ireland Opens First Ever “Frictionless Store” Where Customers Are Automatically Billed On Their Phones
- Aldi Grocery Store In London Forces Customers To Make Cashless Payments With No Registers By Scanning QR Code To Enter
- Australian Football League Stadium Partners With Amazon To Introduce AI Contactless ‘Just Walk Out’ Payment System
- Panera Bread Debuts Amazon One’s “Frictionless” Palm-Reading Payment System
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs 26:16
Sluggards are typically prideful, they think they have all the answers on life and nobody can tell them otherwise. Well, if you’re so smart then why are you living in squalor and a total pauper?
Real life example: that satanic pentecostal nun I messaged you about Jacob over a year ago and wrote brother Bryan a letter about it, Antonia “Toni” Laurel, she has a nephew named Rick and he is a parasite! A wicked, satanic, surface nuisance that the Lord is waiting to cut down!
Rick is a lazy worthless bum who hasn’t had a job for over 2 decades but here’s the thing: he REFUSES to work. He’s assaulted and threatened people, he has stolen, he’s violent, after his aunt’s death, he tried to commit fraud and made a threatening scene at a bank trying to claim what wasn’t his and his brothers had to put him in his place perhaps even call the police on him.
He also has a criminal record for assaulting his mistress’s mother and breaking and entering, one time he almost got put in jail for threatening some minors who called the police on him!
He’s a bum who is just a year away from turning 70! It’s bad enough when there’s bums in their 20s and 30s but when we have a bum who is just a year away from turning 70, you are witnessing the final moments of a nation before it crashes!
Rick is going to wind up getting shot! You can count on that and here’s a verse for Rick:
11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Proverbs 17:11
Another reason to shop at the smaller stores, most local little stores (if they managed to survive the Lockdowns and increased cost of living crisis and horrendous expensive rise in business rates, electric and gas prices) need us to survive, most still accepting cash, in fact some of the little local shops are cash only
(Yay!!! What a lovely surprise seeing a lot of large stores inform you it’s either card or pay by phone and the digital type of payment, obviously they don’t mind having their purchases control and tracking…
I think only the absolute naive person thinking it’s great to have digital money instead of cash, digital account it could be frozen, only be able to buy certain items and of course the social credit system…
I expect you all heard by now some banks are freezing bank accounts of people posting on social media criticism of woke ideology…
Some people only found out about their frozen accounts because they had no money reaching their services provider and unable to pay bills because of the account frozen…
The bank didn’t even have the curtesy to tell their customers they closed it or temporarily frozen it!!
So…beware…what nice days we live in, eh?!!
I prefer smaller shops because they are often family run and more personal service and more curtesy too, and the larger stores are crowded and so busy it’s a nightmare sometimes.
As for the cameras stopping shoplifting, highly doubtful it would be a deterrent seeing the police don’t seem to care these days, we watched footage of people stealing from stores on the news, the poor shopkeeper said they phoned police several times but they didn’t want to know…well…it has to be priced over a certain amount or they police aren’t interested because thieves are able to take loads of items without punishment
Nobody wants to know these days…the older people in the community are totally disgusted with the youths coming in and empty the shelves but what can anyone do about it? If you try to stop the bad ‘uns, it’s the one trying to stop them that get in Trouble!!! Crazy crazy world!!!!
Perilous times indeed…we live in evil days where everything is the opposite
Well I’m getting off my soapbox now
God Bless you all
Pray for our communities, most have never heard of Jesus, it’s not a Christian nation anymore, pray, hand out tracts, tell everyone how much Jesus loves them
Till ya get home and find out ya just bought yours and 2 others also.
Just stupid.