FamilyMart, a micromarket vein aimed at unmanned payment stores

Nowadays, convenience stores (CVS) companies are actively promoting digital power, which is the savings of stores.Among them, FamilyMart (Tokyo / President Kenosuke Hosomi) has a capital and business alliance with Touch to Go (Tokyo / President Tomoki Akutsu, hereinafter TTG), which develops an unmanned payment system, and has a multi -storeed unmanned payment store.The development is being promoted at a rapid pace.

Amazing recognition rate 95 % unmanned payment practical shop

 In March 2021, FamilyMart opened an unmanned payment store "Famima !! Sapia Tower / S (Sapia Tower S)" (Chiyoda -ku, Tokyo).The store is the first practical use of unmanned payment stores in a capital business alliance with TTG.TTG's unmanned payment system has been unmanned settlement shops on the JR Yamanote Line "Takanawa Gateway" station (Minato -ku, Tokyo), and the unmanned payment supermarket "Kinokuniyasutto" in the same premises of "Mejiro" station (Toshima Ward).Has a track record of introduced in.

 Here is the unmanned payment mechanism.When you enter the sales floor through the entrance gate, 48 sensor cameras attached to the ceiling of the sales floor track the customer.Based on the registered shelves and the information from the camera, it is a mechanism to determine the products that customers have picked up.If you stand in front of the cash register, the list of products you have in your hand will be displayed, if it matches, you will accounting it, and if you make a mistake, you will correct it yourself.However, the product recognition rate (the rate in which the product has been obtained correctly) has reached an extremely high level of 95 % on average, and "If you cannot recognize it, the child you hold your child picks up the product.It is quite limited, such as when customers and customers hand over products in the store (President of Touch to Go President Tomoki Akutsu).

ファミリーマート、無人決済店舗でねらうマイクロマーケットの鉱脈

 The payment method supports cashless payments with credit cards or transportation IC cards, as well as cash payments.In any case, normal shopping is unmanned and completed, but the store itself is not completely unmanned.Staff for product and product management always wait in the backyard one person.Compared to ordinary stores that require at least two staff members in any time, it seems that a significant reduction in labor costs can be expected.

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