Teh One Who Knocks
02-11-2021, 12:46 PM
Steve Watkins, Staff Reporter - Cincinnati Business Courier
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Kroger Co. is about to test its first store that offers only self-service checkout lanes using enhanced capabilities.
Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR), the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, plans to launch the pilot test of the all-self-checkout store Feb. 17 in Dallas. It’s converting one of its smaller stores, on Cedar Springs Road, for the pilot.
A key to the test is Kroger will install new self-checkout lanes with conveyor belts at the store to handle larger purchase orders, Kroger spokeswoman April Martin said. The store will keep its existing self-checkout stations.
“Kroger is always looking for new ways to reinvent the checkout experience for its customers,” Martin said of the test.
The wider self-checkout lanes with conveyor belts have been tested at Kroger stores in Dallas for more than a year. The company offers those lanes at eight Dallas-area stores and two in Columbus, Ohio. But the converted Dallas store will be Kroger’s first to offer self-checkout only. Kroger has nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states.
Kroger will still have cashiers and courtesy clerks available to assist customers at the test store, Martin said.
The launch of all self-checkout at Kroger follows Seattle-based Amazon’s use of technology enabling customers to pay as they go and avoid checkout lanes at its AmazonGo stores.
Kroger frequently tests technology at a single store first before rolling it out broadly if the test is successful. It hasn’t said if it plans to expand the all self-checkout concept to other stores.
https://i.imgur.com/Ka2ZZeo.jpg
Kroger Co. is about to test its first store that offers only self-service checkout lanes using enhanced capabilities.
Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR), the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, plans to launch the pilot test of the all-self-checkout store Feb. 17 in Dallas. It’s converting one of its smaller stores, on Cedar Springs Road, for the pilot.
A key to the test is Kroger will install new self-checkout lanes with conveyor belts at the store to handle larger purchase orders, Kroger spokeswoman April Martin said. The store will keep its existing self-checkout stations.
“Kroger is always looking for new ways to reinvent the checkout experience for its customers,” Martin said of the test.
The wider self-checkout lanes with conveyor belts have been tested at Kroger stores in Dallas for more than a year. The company offers those lanes at eight Dallas-area stores and two in Columbus, Ohio. But the converted Dallas store will be Kroger’s first to offer self-checkout only. Kroger has nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states.
Kroger will still have cashiers and courtesy clerks available to assist customers at the test store, Martin said.
The launch of all self-checkout at Kroger follows Seattle-based Amazon’s use of technology enabling customers to pay as they go and avoid checkout lanes at its AmazonGo stores.
Kroger frequently tests technology at a single store first before rolling it out broadly if the test is successful. It hasn’t said if it plans to expand the all self-checkout concept to other stores.