{"id":20106,"date":"2024-10-11T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retail-optimiser.de\/samss-club-tests-self-scanning-only-store\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:18:53","slug":"samss-club-tests-self-scanning-only-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retail-optimiser.de\/en\/samss-club-tests-self-scanning-only-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Sams\u2019s Club tests self-scanning-only store"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"20106\" class=\"elementor elementor-20106 elementor-20099\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c287ae1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c287ae1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f3afb78\" data-id=\"f3afb78\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21c3721 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"21c3721\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Walmart\u2019s Cash-and-Carry store operation Sam\u2019s Club will open a self-scanning-only store in Grapevine, Texas next week \u2013 Sam&#8217;s Club president and CEO Chris Nicholas announced at the Groceryshop conference in Las Vegas on Monday. The store will not be equipped with regular checkout counters. Customers will have to pay using the Scan&amp;Go smartphone app. The retailer will use the location to test new features and emerging technology.<\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s Club&#8217;s Scan&amp;Go technology was developed in-house. Customers scan the barcode on each item and pay using an app developed by the membership retailer. The store will be around 14.000 square meters (151,000 square feet), according to <em>Retail Dive<\/em>. AI and computer vision at the exit area will confirm that customers have paid for all the items in their shopping carts. A camera will be mounted on a gate above the customer to identify the products in the trolleys. The technology captures images of the basket and transmits them to an employee\u2019s handheld device, <a href=\"https:\/\/retail-optimiser.de\/en\/walmarts-sams-club-is-rolling-out-ai-receipt-verification-to-all-stores\/\">as reported by <em>The Retail Optimiser<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Groceryshop, Sam\u2018s\u2018 Club CEO said, according to <em>Retail Dive<\/em>: \u201cWe got really excited about some of the problems that members are asking us to solve, and right at the heart of that was, \u2018Please take friction out of my life.\u2019\u201d The retailer believes that its customers are no longer primarily interested in buying large amounts of goods. \u201cShoppers are increasingly interested in picking up a few items at a time\u201d, says Nicholas.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Freed space used for brining online in store<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Nicholas stated at the conference in Las Vegas that around 30 per cent of Sam\u2019s Club customers use Scan&amp;Go regularly. The membership retailer doesn\u2019t only want to remove friction at the checkout but it also aims to add value to every member who\u2019s using the app. Sam\u2019s Club wants to use the extra space at the store, which would normally be occupied by regular manned checkouts, to display products that are only available online. Shoppers can then scan<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>QR codes and go straight to the items in the app.<\/p>\n<p>In August of this year, the retailer also began displaying ads from consumer goods industry in its Scan&amp;Go app, <a href=\"https:\/\/retail-optimiser.de\/en\/sams-club-brings-display-ads-to-scan-go-app\/\">as reported by <em>The Retail Optimiser<\/em><\/a>. 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