Morrisons plans shops with no checkouts

Morrisons is screening supermarkets with no checkouts or workers that would permit buyers only wander out with their bag of buying in a transfer to rival Amazon’s Clean stores.

The grocer, which is the subject of a multi-billion pound takeover tussle, has been screening the idea recognized internally as Undertaking Sarah at its Bradford head office. The keep is open up to countless numbers of workers and the FTSE 100 retailer plans to broaden the strategy far more broadly.

Britain’s fourth-most significant supermarket is working with US technological know-how business AiFi, which employs cameras to observe the objects buyers pick up and set in their baskets, and rates them by a smartphone application.

A supply close to Morrisons claimed the technological know-how had worked properly at its pilot keep, with “a couple far more in flight. The tech itself is phenomenal, which employs cameras alternatively than weights – it has been pretty smooth”.

The plans were being 1st noted by the Mail on Sunday.

Amazon has pioneered supermarkets that deficiency tills, launching its Amazon Clean stores in the US and bringing the idea to the United kingdom in March with a keep in Ealing.