The Edeka merchant from Hamburg wants to set up automated supermarkets without cash registers.
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Hamburg When holidaymakers shop on Sylt, they can soon feel as if they are in one of the highly acclaimed Amazon Go stores. But it is not the Seattle retail giant who is planning a cashless supermarket in the holiday resort of Wenningstedt, but the local Edeka merchant Jörg Meyer.
And he uses technology from Germany for this. The start-up Autonomo from Hamburg supplies him with the camera, the software and the artificial intelligence that is necessary for this. Customers can register via an app or their credit card at the entrance to the store. Everything they take off the shelves is then billed automatically.
“The technology is outstanding,” enthuses Kaufmann Meyer. It is important for him that he can still have a say in the design of the system so that it is perfectly tailored to the needs of a supermarket operator. Because Sylt should only be the beginning.
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