Selfycart launched a self-checkout app for Rainbow Grocery, a San Francisco based cooperative grocery store. Selfycart is focusing on offering this system to independent grocers like Rainbow Grocery and Zanattos, two of its current customers.
Shoppers can walk into the store and use the Selfycart app to scan the items they want, pay for them through their smartphone and then leave the store without needing to wait in a line at a checkout or interact with anyone, if they don’t want to.
Before leaving the store, an associate can check the shopper’s QR code to confirm that they have paid.
Selfycart’s business model requires companies to pay an annual subscription of $19,800, paid in monthly payments, to use its platform and access its analytics dashboard. Shoppers pay 2% per transaction, but Selfycart says it will remove the fee if it reduces uptake of the app.
Industry is continually looking to make shopping in-store as quick and convenient as possible, and smartphones are playing a critical role in enabling this.
Waitrose claimed to be the UK’s first supermarket to roll out a ‘scan as you shop’ mobile app, however you still need to pay at the till to complete your shop.
