In Dubai, Carrefour has a branch that allows you to scan the items with your while you adding them to your trolley, so that in the end, you do not need to do a full checkout and can just do the payment and walk out.
There is another Carrefour branch, which does not have the above option, but allows you to give your trolley to the checkout counter, and just go home. In 30 minutes or so, you get the products delivered to your door, with the credit card reader, so you can pay.
What would be really awesome, would be a merger of there two features, as follows:
I walk around the supermarket scanning the items I need (without adding to trolley, and lugging the trolley around). Then pay and walk out, and in 30 minutes the items are delivered to my house.
That would be cool, and the tech and systems are in place for that.
You can do that in the UK already too. Or self scan at a checkout. I think the difference here is really that they're talking about using cameras instead of scanning and it seems not even having a cashier as an option.
I think nearly half of people do some grocery shopping online these days, I wonder if that's putting more pressure on supermarkets to reduce overheads like cashiers. The lower end supermarkets seem to mostly go the other way - with Aldi and Lidl not having self scan checkouts even other than trials.
In many places here in France you can just order online on Carrefour's (or one of the other supermarkets) website and get your stuff delivered to your house, so that seems like more or less what you're looking for, unless you really want to scan physical items yourself rather than online.
Although what most people use is actually the reverse, you order the items online and go fetch them with your car, an employee puts the bags in your trunk and you're on your way. You can either pay online or on site.
Some Walmarts in the US also have the first option you mention (scanning your items as you shop). I think itβs neat, but the Amazon Go stores are still way more convenient.
There is another Carrefour branch, which does not have the above option, but allows you to give your trolley to the checkout counter, and just go home. In 30 minutes or so, you get the products delivered to your door, with the credit card reader, so you can pay.
What would be really awesome, would be a merger of there two features, as follows:
I walk around the supermarket scanning the items I need (without adding to trolley, and lugging the trolley around). Then pay and walk out, and in 30 minutes the items are delivered to my house.
That would be cool, and the tech and systems are in place for that.