“My shopping in a flash”: on the front of the first Carrefour Flash store, which opens this Friday on avenue Parmentier in Paris (11th), the promise to do its shopping in record time intrigues passers-by in the neighborhood.
"Ah, is this a new drive?"
», Asks a father who has come to drop off his child in front of the school next to the store.
Yes and no, we answer him.
If the drive is included in the various services offered inside, the novelty, the real one, lies in the checkout.
Fully automatic, they come in the form of touchscreen tablets, capable of listing in a second all the products that the customer has on him or in his basket.
“The store is equipped with 60 cameras that capture your slightest movement in the middle of the shelves,” explains Nicolas Safis, Innovation director at Carrefour.
For each customer who enters the store, these cameras create a color avatar, monitored in real time in all departments.
If it takes or puts a product back, they will detect it ”.
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But how to distinguish the references (there are about 900 in the store) or the quantities taken by the customer?
This time, the artificial intelligence of the cameras is coupled with that of the sensors, hidden in the 200 shelves of the store.
“Suddenly, when you arrive at the checkout, you no longer need to take your items out of your basket and that is the magic of the concept.
You can have put them in your shopping bag or have taken a packet of chewing gum in your pocket, the cashier knows everything.
Simple and fast for the customer, ”he continues.
It is also impossible to forget to scan (intentionally or not) an article.
