The first shop "Alphabets of Taste" without cash desks and sellers opened in Moscow

2020: Opening of the first shop without cash desks and sellers in Moscow

Sberbank, retail network "Alphabet of Taste" and international payment system of Visa opened the shop equipped with the system of computer vision in Russia. On May 20, 2020 TAdviser was reported about it by representatives of Sberbank.

The first shop "Alphabets of Taste" without cash desks and sellers opened in Moscow

To use service, the buyer needs to download mobile application Take&Go from Sberbank and to be registered in it, having linked to the account the bank card for payment of purchases and email to which checks will come.

For shopping in such shop it is enough on an input in the zone Take&Go to scan the QR code from mobile application from Sberbank, to take the necessary goods from shelves and just to leave: money will be charged from the card automatically. For May, 2020 the technology is piloted behind closed doors on a limited number of clients in Alphabet of Taste shop which is in the Moscow City business center (a tower Federation, Presnenskaya Embankment, 12), but within a month will be available to everyone.

Service begins to work as soon as the scanner of a tourniquet reads out the QR code of the client on an input in the zone Take&Go. The intelligent system of observation continuously keeps track of quantity and the range of goods on shelves unmistakably to collect products which were selected by the buyer in a virtual basket. If the person took a product, but changed the mind and returned it into place — the goods will be right there deleted from a virtual basket.

As soon as the client leaves shop, mobile application Take&Go Sberbank automatically performs write-off. After payment passing the buyer receives the push-notification on phone and the check by e-mail.

As a result — lack of queues, cashiers and cash desks of self-service, and consequently — saving of time for visitors and staff costs for shop.

Together with partners we start the innovative technology which will cardinally change client experience in offline - trade and, I think, in the short term, will be able to become a widespread method of shopping in supermarkets to which we will get used as quickly as, in due time, to cashless payment,

We are glad together with partners to pilot this project, disruptive for the Russian market. All of us observe how using high technologies world retail turns into reality that once it seemed fantastic and unrealizable. But the project is important for us also because it is one more confirmation of high level of confidence in the relations between Alphabet of Taste and our buyers. We trust in economy of trust and in technologies and we look forward to the first results of field tests and impressions of our buyers, they eventually define the fate of all innovations and their applicability to our daily life, noted Georgy Mikhaylov, the vice president of Alphabet of Taste

We are glad that card owners of Visa the first will be able to use this service which will allow them to pay purchases even more simply and more conveniently. In Russia there is a high demand from consumers on the innovative payment solutions. According to our data, two three Russians are interested in use of convenient services of payment based on the innovative technologies therefore we are sure that the solution on the basis of computer vision will become demanded among consumers in the near future, commented Mikhail Berner, the CEO of Visa in Russia