A new payment system in which shoppers need not line up at cash registers has been developed by Fujitsu Ltd., that its "registerless" payment service had been launched at two supermarkets in Ibaraki Prefecture.
Shoppers scan the bar code on each item they want to buy with a smartphone app before putting it in their shopping baskets. When they finish shopping, they touch a "purchase" button on the app to pay with a preregistered credit card. Shoppers need only to show a confirmation screen as they exit the store.
United Super Markets Holdings Inc., a major supermarket chain, jointly developed the system with Fujitsu and started operating it on Oct. 21 at two stores of its affiliated company Kasumi Co.
USMH is also considering introducing the system at stores of Maruetsu Inc. and MaxValu Kanto Co. -- both affiliated with USMH -- to increase the number of stores where the system can be used.
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