Bingo Box appears in China (China)

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Following in Amazon Go's footsteps?! Unmanned stores appear one after another
Unmanned stores have been gaining attention with the recent appearance of Amazon Go. If you think about it, offline payments without the assistance of store staff may have been possible with the introduction of self-checkouts. At first, self-checkouts were often avoided, but now they are widely used by not only young people but also the elderly. Amazon Go

appeared in the midst of all this , and unmanned stores are beginning to appear in Asia as if to follow suit.



Bingo Box, an unmanned store open 24 hours a day in China, features a typically Chinese way of entering and paying.
To enter the store, you need to scan the two-dimensional mom database barcode next to the store's entrance with WeChat. This serves as a form of identity verification. Each



item in the store has a unique tag attached, and when you place the item on the reader at the register, a two-dimensional barcode containing information such as the payment amount is displayed. You then read the barcode with WeChat Payment or Alipay to make the payment.


Seven-Eleven (Korea) allows payments using vein authentication
A 7-Eleven on the 31st floor of Lotte World Tower in Seoul. Unlike other 7-Elevens, this one is an unmanned store where customers pay for their own purchases.