Tesco is setting up its first checkout-free shop following a successful trial run at head office over the last year.The chief executive, Ken Murphy, claimed plans were in the early stages, but he’s hoping that the new store can match the appeal of the scan-and-go system used by Amazon in the UK.He said: “We have a system installed in our Express store in Welwyn Garden City (at head office), and we’ll extend that to another store in the coming weeks and months to check it in a more urban environment.“It’s been opened about a year now, and it’s working really well… One of the joys of machine learning is it is continuously improving, so we’re feeling confident that we can put it into another store with a higher traffic.”The news was reported.
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