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Sainsbury’s lets customers ‘just walk out’ of contactless store in London

By Tom Phillips • • Updated • nfcw.com
Customer using Sainsbury’s ‘just walk out’ contactless store in London

Customers using a Sainsbury’s contactless convenience store in London can now take the products they want to purchase from the shelves and charge their purchases to their credit or debit card without needing to scan them with their smartphone or visit a checkout by using a new feature on the UK retailer’s SmartShop app... More

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Sainsbury’s: Mobile self-checkout drives higher shopper spending

By Sarah Clark • • Updated • nfcw.com

Behind Sainsbury’s in-store Mobile Pay solution — Essential Retail — “We have an average basket spend in store and we were expecting it to be slightly lower than that, but actually it’s coming out higher… If they go into store and see a queue, they want to be quick and grab two things to get into the queue as quickly as possible. But now they take their time and buy three or four things.”

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Sainsbury’s lets UK supermarket shoppers check out from their mobile phones

By Sarah Clark • • Updated • nfcw.com

Skip the queue, scan and go: Sainsbury’s launches till-free shopping — Sainsbury’s — “In a UK supermarket first, Sainsbury’s is trialling new scan, pay and go technology that will enable customers in one of its busy London convenience stores to pay for products in-store using their smartphone… Using the latest version of the SmartShop app, customers visiting the Clapham North Station Local can use their smartphones to scan their shopping as they go and then pay for it through the app, from anywhere in the store, using Apple Pay.”

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UK supermarket pilots self-checkout service that lets shoppers scan and pay by smartphone

By Sarah Clark • • Updated • nfcw.com

Sainsbury’s to launch app which helps customers avoid checkout queues — The Independent — “Sainsbury’s are currently testing the app at their London Euston station store meaning that shoppers can buy the £3 ‘On the Go’ meal deal by simply scanning the products and paying using their phone. As soon as payment is confirmed, customers are free to leave the store without the hassle of time-consuming queues.”

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RBTE 2017: Sainsbury’s throws down gauntlet to mobile payments industry

By Grace Phelps • • Updated • nfcw.com

RBTE 2017: Sainsbury’s throws down gauntlet to mobile payments industry — Essential Retail — “The retailers’ perspective is that many people have joined the payments industry just because they want a piece of the data… Data on customer behaviour and what the customer is doing in the retail environment is the most prized possession any retailer has.”

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Sainsbury’s tests mobile shopping and payments app

By Rian Boden • • Updated • nfcw.com
How the Sainsbury's mobile app works

UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is to pilot a mobile shopping app that allows customers to build a virtual basket of favourite products from anywhere before they visit a store, get directions when they arrive at the store to find the items in their virtual basket, scan selected items as they shop, and then check out and pay with their mobile phone... More

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O2 Wallet launches in the UK: NFC to be added “in time”

By Sarah Clark • • Updated • nfcw.com
O2

Amid on-going delays for the UK mobile network operators’ Project Oscar NFC joint venture, O2 has moved ahead with the launch of a mobile wallet that offers a suite of payments and marketing services to any mobile phone user, regardless of the carrier they get their mobile service from — with NFC to arrive later. More