FILE PHOTO: A consumer shops at a supermarket in Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo
SÃO PAULO: Brazilian food retailer GPA SA plans to open its first store to test technologies such as facial recognition and "scan & go" shopping by year-end, following in the footsteps of parent company Casino, which opened a checkout-free store in Paris last November.
The Sao Paulo-based store, which will use technology from Microsoft Corp, makes GPA the latest supermarket chain to experiment with formats similar to Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Go checkout-free convenience stores the Web-based retailer has rolled out in the United States.
