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Haven't the (big) supermarkets in the US adopted the whole "scan and go" thing that lots of countries in Europe have had for a long time? (maybe more than a decade at this point I think)
When I go to the supermarket, right after the entrance, I pick up a scanner, then as I pick stuff, I scan them and pack them. Then when I'm done, you scan a code, give back the scanner, take your stuff and leave. Kind of assumed this was done in the US first and then spread here, but maybe it started here? Not sure.
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scan & go is in most grocery stores but I almost never see anyone using it.
Haha no. US commerce improvements tend to trail EU by a decade.
We just got tap to pay a couple of years ago. People still pass bits of paper with signatures on them to pay each other for stuff.
That does not exist in the US as far as I've seen.
There's Amazon's "just walk out" stuff, which they just killed.
No, I've never seen that in the US.
Kroger (Ralph's, etc.) allows you to do tap and pay, or to scan and pay (using a QR code in the app tied to your customer profile). These work at the regular cashiers and in self-checkout.
Home Depot has also allowed this for lower-value items for several years.
To be fair with scan & go you still have to scan your membership card which would be the equivalent of typing in your phone number.
But most retail tech in the US is suuuuper backwards. They were still signing credit card receipts until very recently. The way you pay for petrol/gas is bonkers.
Despite others saying that they have never seen it, Meijer stores have this, except instead of a store scanner you use your phone with an app. There are other reasons too, but this is a big part of why my family shops at Meijer compared every other store near us.