Standard Cognition’s approach to eliminating cashiers and payment terminals from the retail experience resembles the Amazon Go concept, but there is a key difference. While Amazon is developing stores that allow customers to simply walk out with purchases from the ground up, Standard is focused on allowing retailers to tack frictionless capabilities onto existing stores without having to make major changes to their facilities or systems.
Alimentation Couche-Tard plans to hold onto the fixtures and lighting already installed in the Circle K location where it will be running the test. The layout will not change, either, and the store will continue to use the inventory management and replenishment processes it has been using to run the store.
The technology supplied by Standard does not need biometric information from shoppers to operate. The system also does not use shelf sensors, which sets it apart from the way Amazon Go stores run.