Lenovo Lecoo Unmanned Store (shop without personnel)

2018: Opening of shop

At the beginning of November, 2018 the Lenovo company opened in China shop without personnel. The mini-market of Lenovo Lecoo Unmanned Store in which bags of juice, instant noodles and other products for easy having a snack are on sale is located in Beijing, in the territory of a campus of the Chinese vendor.

At the expense of different technologies, such as face recognition, electronic payments, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, shop can work by the principle of complete self-service. The role of employees in it is executed by tablets.

Lenovo opened shop without personnel

Having come into shop, it is necessary will stop in front of the tablet with the camera which will recognize the buyer and finds his profile in the database. Then it is possible to select the necessary goods, and the payment for them will be charged off a mobile account of the buyer at an exit from shop.

Lenovo says that shop - a pilot project of the company which will help with testing and improvement of new technologies.

Now we can understand better what difficulties our clients with using technologies meet that will give us the chance to release the best devices and to propose individual solutions. Our shop - the powerful pilot program for technologies which overstep the bounds of a campus of Lenovo, - said in the company.[1]

Lenovo is going to expand service. In particular, it is supposed to include for convenience of buyers a possibility of delivery of purchases to the house after placement of the online order in shop. One more idea - to implement AI technologies in the coffee machine that will allow it to remember individual preferences of clients and to cook drinks with their accounting.

The The Verge edition notes that opening of self-service shops became a trend among the Chinese technology giants recently. For example, Alibaba develops network of the semi-automated Hema supermarkets. Without personnel the competing Internet giant JD.com has outlets also.^[2]

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