Mobile Phone for Future Supermarket in Germany

Mobile Phone for Future Supermarket in Germany. An interesting innovation for the 'future store', A German supermarket is encouraging customers to scan and ring up their shopping using mobile phones, and check out without the help of a cashier. Customers have to snap pictures of the barcodes on all groceries as they load up the cart.

When it comes time to check-out, all the barcodes recorded are tallied up and consolidated in to a barcode. Then, an automated kiosk will take care of scanning the barcode on your mobile phone's display, and prompt you for payment.

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