No cashiers, please: Futuristic supermarket opens in Mideast


A man uses a QR code on a mobile phone to enter Carrefour's new cashier-less grocery store in Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Sept 6, 2021. The Middle East on Monday got its first completely automated cashier-less store, as retail giant Carrefour rolled out its vision for the future of the industry in a cavernous Dubai mall. — AP

DUBAI: The Middle East on Monday got its first completely automated cashier-less store, as retail giant Carrefour rolled out its vision for the future of the industry in a cavernous Dubai mall.

Like Amazon's breakthrough unmanned grocery stores that opened in 2018, the Carrefour mini-market looks like any ordinary convenience store, brimming with sodas and snacks, tucked between sprawling storefronts of this city-state.

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