'Trigo', the Israeli seamless shopping startup, is opening Germany’s first fully autonomous supermarket. Customers in Munich will walk in, select their items off the shelves, and leave without having to pay at checkout. The grocery giant Rewe, with over 3,700 stores in Germany, already has two Trigo-powered grocery stores, in Cologne and then Berlin. But they still have conventional checkouts, whereas the Munich store, branded as Pick&Go, is fully cashierless, and as such is Germany’s first fully-automated supermarket.
The Tel Aviv-based company uses AI tech and ceiling-mounted cameras to track every item a shopper selects (or puts back on the shelf). Customers scan a QR code as they enter, and the purchase amount is automatically deducted as they leave.
The algorithms can also monitor inventory levels in real-time, and detect items that have been misplaced or stolen.
The Israeli company has already deployed its solutions in grocery retailers in the UK, the Netherlands, Israel, and in the USA.
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