End of the line for the supermarket checkout: The bell tolls for tills with birth of new shop-and-go phone scanner

‘Can you imagine popping into a supermarket, picking up what you want from the shelves then marching out again without so much as breaking your stride? Well that day is just around the corner.
Sainsbury’s has come up with an app that could finally kill off the drudgery of standing in a checkout queue to pay for your shopping.
The supermarket is testing technology that will allow customers to scan shopping on their smartphones, then simply leave the store.
The cost of the goods will be deducted directly from their bank account or credit card via their phone.
Sainsbury’s earlier this month tested a prototype of checkout-free shopping in its store at Euston Station in London.
The site was chosen because most customers there are in a hurry to catch trains and keen to rush through the shop. In the trial, shoppers used a special app on their phone to buy a ‘meal deal’ consisting of three items: a sandwich, a drink and a snack, without having to queue.’
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