Amazon to launch pay-by-palm technology at all Whole Foods stores by year-end

Amazon volition fto shoppers wage with their palms astatine each Whole Foods stores by the extremity of the year, the institution announced Thursday.

Amazon One is simply a biometric exertion that lets users participate and wage for items astatine stores by placing a thenar implicit a scanning device. Shoppers archetypal person to link their thenar to a stored recognition card. After that, they tin wage by simply waving their manus implicit the kiosk.

The institution first introduced the exertion successful its Go cashierless stores, but aboriginal began adding it to Whole Foods supermarkets. Amazon One is present successful much than 200 Whole Foods locations, and the institution said it volition beryllium disposable successful each of the upscale grocer's astir 500 stores successful the coming months.

Amazon said Thursday it's seeing "growing demand" for the technology, with it signaling 3 cardinal uses of Amazon One.

The institution has progressively marketed its carnal store technologies to 3rd parties arsenic portion of a portion that present sits nether its Amazon Web Services unreality division. Amazon has signed deals with airdrome stores, sports stadiums and performance venues to instal its palm-based outgo tech and cashierless checkout system, called Just Walk Out.

Popular bakery-cafe concatenation Panera Bread began testing Amazon One astatine immoderate of its stores earlier this year. And the Coors Field shot stadium successful Denver in May began letting attendees bargain intoxicant utilizing the thenar scanning device.