Another Cashier Free Store Opens

[Alpha8472]

Zippin has opened up a new cashier free store in San Francisco. You download an app on your phone and take what food or merchandise that you want and you walk out. You simply need to scan your phone at the entrance. The app will charge you using information from cameras that watch your every move.

Cash is accepted since San Francisco passed a law requiring cash as a payment. One single person at the door will stop you if you are paying cash.

The store is very similar to Amazon Go stores and sell high priced upscale convenience store items. The selection is smaller than Amazon Go, but the prices are matched to be the same as nearby Amazon Go stores.

Zippin is run by people who used to work at Amazon. The goal is not to open up more stores to compete, but to sell this cashier free technology to other companies so that they too can open up cashier free stores.

Is this the future? Get rid of cashiers and make stores where cameras watch your every move and charge you.

[storewanderer]

So how does it work? Can you even get a scan code to enter the store without entering your credit card number into the app?

It seems to me these "membership" type stores that are Cashless will probably not be impacted much by a law requiring cash payment because they require you to download an app or have a membership (Amazon Prime) to even enter the place... so the stores are still restricted from people who have no app or no membership...

I doubt anyone pays with cash so saying they accept it is just a technicality. I wonder how much cash is on hand.

[klkla]

They have a demo on their website:

https://www.getzippin.com/#howitworks

[Brian Lutz]

In the case of the Amazon Go stores that take cash (they had to add cash payment to a store in New York to comply with a law requiring it) an employee can scan you into the store and then take payment on the way out.