Amazon is bringing its Amazon One palm scanner to select Whole Foods as a payment option
Amazon is bringing its new biometric device, the Amazon One scanner, to Whole Foods store. The retail giant this past fall introduced the Amazon One scanner, which allows shoppers to enter a store by having their palm scanned. The customer’s palm signature can be associated with their payment mechanism in a retail environment like Amazon’s cashier-less Amazon Go stores, where customers shop, then walk out without having to go through a traditional checkout process. Now at Whole Foods, the Amazon One scanner will be added as a payment option at checkout.
Amazon Adopts Contactless Palm-Scan Payment at Whole Foods
Amazon will bring its contactless payment options to Whole Foods, introducing its Amazon One palm-scanning method at the chain.
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The technology, called Amazon One, enables shoppers to pay for their items by scanning their palms.
The system associates a credit card with a customer s palm print. It s a contactless alternative to cash and card payments, the Seattle tech and online-retail giant said in a statement.
Contactless technology deployed at select stores in Seattle area
Amazon is bringing its palm-scanning Amazon One contactless payment system to Whole Foods Market.
The retail giant said Wednesday that Amazon One, unveiled last fall, has launched at Madison Broadway Whole Foods store in Seattle and is earmarked for another seven Whole Foods locations in the Seattle area.
Offered by Amazon’s physical retail team, Amazon One uses custom-built algorithms and hardware to scan a person’s unique palm signature and provide a fast, convenient and contactless means of enabling everyday activities such as checkout and payment at a store, presentation of a loyalty card, and secure entry at sites like a store, stadium or workplace.
Pay with your palm: Amazon expands contactless payments in Seattle
The technology, called Amazon One, will let Whole Foods shoppers in Seattle scan the palm of their hand and connect it to a credit card or Amazon account. Author: Associated Press, KING 5 Staff Published: 1:06 PM PDT April 21, 2021 Updated: 1:11 PM PDT April 21, 2021
SEATTLE Amazon is rolling out pay-by-palm technology at some Whole Foods grocery stores in Seattle. The company claims the new contactless payment method will be quicker and more convenient.
The technology, called Amazon One, lets shoppers scan the palm of their hand and connect it to a credit card or Amazon account. After the initial setup, which Amazon says takes less than a minute, shoppers can scan their hand at the register to pay for groceries without having to open their wallets.