What might shopping become if you could simply enter a store, pick anything you want and leave? What if we could combine the most cutting-edge machine learning, computer vision, and AI into the fundamental architecture of a store, eliminating the need to queue? There are no lines, no checkouts, and no cash registers. Do you know what it is? It’s checkout-free shopping. It’s predicted that we wait 33 days in our lives in-store cashier lines. Shoppers’ traditional shopping experiences have been improved thanks to recent advances in computer vision and machine learning. In this blog, we will discuss how checkout-free shopping in retail stores works.

What is checkout-free shopping?

Checkout free shopping is a cashier-less checkout system that detect shoppers’ product preferences and bill them when they close their shopping trip. QR codes, smart shopping carts, RFID tags, and machine vision are the solutions that process transactions, invoices and billing.

How do checkout-free stores work?

Machine vision

When a shopper selects an item and adds it to his bag, the process is captured by cameras. Then image recognition adds the picked products to the shopper’s cart.

When a shopper enters the store, the shopper’s mobile app connects him to the store database and begins the shopping process. When the shopper finishes shopping, it processes the invoice and completes the payment process.

Cameras are cost-effective live in this machine vision system and used for security reasons. In another way a checkout-free solution assures security while simultaneously minimizing checkout costs.

Self-checkout Systems Market

source: research and market

Research and markets U.S. self-checkout systems market size is anticipated to reach USD 2.97 billion by 2028, expanding at a CAGR of 11.3% from 2021 to 2028.

Retailers provide self-checkout services to improve transaction efficiency user experience. Serving a broader range of customers is likely to fuel market expansion. The current self-checkout solutions integrate cash and cashless features, allow retailers to customize shopping experiences according to shopper choices, certainly promise the industry’s growth.

For instance weis markets inc a U.S. grocery retailer integrated Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions’ self-checkout system across 198 stores in January 2020.

What is Amazon Go?

Amazon go is a checkout-free shopping experience enabled with technologies employed in self-driving cars, such as computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning.

When products are taken or put back on the shelves, Just walk out technology record all activity in a virtual cart. You can just exit the store once you’ve finished shopping. If you used an amazon connected account to shop, we email a receipt and debit your amazon account later or your card will be charged.

How do I use Amazon Go?

When you arrive at your local amazon go store, open the Amazon shopping app and select in-store code. Scan it using the QR code that is displayed. Simply look around and shop like you’re at any other store. When you’ve finished shopping you are on your way home. There are no queues and no checkout. 

Conclusion

Customer experience is essential to consider when redesigning your checkout. It is the physical design of the checkout and the digital portion. Design is so important in retail that it might even be more important than the products themselves. Having checkout-free shopping increases store business. So, what are you waiting for? Start redesigning and make your customers happier. 

The retail industry is an utmost crucial human need. Visionify provides Computer Vision Solutions for retail which includes Out-of-Stock, heatmaps, etc., that reduce pain points in operational marketing and make the retail industry more efficient. If you want a custom quote from us or have any questions, please do not hesitate to call and ask for a live demo.