Convenience store retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard will roll out 10,000 smart checkouts to more than 7,000 Circle K and Couche-Tard stores during the next three years.
The Mashgin Touchless Checkout Systems are AI-powered and designed to improve customer checkouts by as much as 400 percent.
The implementation builds on the deployment of Mashgin across nearly 500 Circle K locations in the U.S. and Sweden since 2020, as well as at Couce-Tard’s retail innovation lab store on the campus of McGill University in Montreal.
The touchless checkout system is a compact countertop device that fits easily into the existing store layout. It uses computer vision to recognize items presented from virtually any angle and instantly rings them up in a single transaction. Customers place their items on the Mashgin Touchless Checkout System, which uses cameras to ring up everything in under a second. There is no need to download an app, shoppers simply put items down, pay as they normally would, and are on their way in as little as 10 seconds.
“We’re committed to investing in and scaling technology that sets a new standard for convenience with our customers and advances our mission to make our customers’ lives a little easier every day,” said Magnus Tagstrom, VP of global innovation at Couche-Tard, in a statement. “The Smart Checkout system powered by Mashgin’s game-changing technology shortens lines, improves the customer experience and frees up our teams to focus on helping our customers. We look forward to introducing this new platform to stores across our network.”
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