Mobile payment: wal-mart test iPhone scanning payment system

The supermarket checkout counter before long dragon gathered situation common occurance, the tedious cashier process, a large amount of manpower and low efficiency of cashier, the entity shop shopping experience to be a transformation.Tablet PC

According to the Reuters news agency, global retailers wal-mart (Walmart) is a new pay system - "Scan and Go", just as its name implies, this system allow consumers through the iPhone's wal-mart application scanning goods, scanning goods entry will synchronization to self-help pay on the counter, then consumers in independent pay pay on the counter.Laptop & Netbook

According to Business Insider revealed that the test by wal-mart laboratory (Walmart Labs) launch. Earlier this week, wal-mart employees invited in Arkansas Rogers supermarket use iPhone test this system. Electronics News

Before this, many consumer to wal-mart payment waiting time is too long, the problems such as too little complain. Wal-mart also has been trying to solve the problem. A few months ago, the company has said it will in the wal-mart and Sam 's Club stores increase self-service checkout counter. If the Scan and Go "system successfully put into use, consumer queuing time payment will be greatly reduced. Cell Phones

In addition, self-help pay mode without the cashier human operation, which save the company's labor costs. Wal-mart CFO Charles Holley has said, in the American market, the company will spend every second in the cashier's wages.

Wal-mart spokesman David Tovar said it would "continue to explore innovative ways to improve store shopping experience. Laptop Accessories

Report introduces, self-help pay counter in a retail store is very common, but few use of intelligent mobile phone scanning mode of goods. Jewel - Osco chain ever developed independent pay counter requires customers to use scanner, and then in the counter manual input information to pay, but this kind of form in a few years ago vanished. Batteries & Chargers

The use of mobile equipment portable, will scan the list of goods task to customers, so as to achieve more efficient shopping pay. But, the mobile phone in the shopping process is only as a networking scanner instead of means of payment existence, the customer must use the traditional self-help pay counter, and could not pay via cell phones directly, the user is not able to use such as Google purse and other services. Cases & Covers

Obviously, in the mobile equipment in life role under the background of great development, each big retailers also know the significance of mobile payment. According to the venturebeat reports, if customers to use traditional credit card payment, retailers usually need to pay 1% to 2% commission, this regarding pre-tax profit only 5% to 6% of the retailers, it is a bunch of money, but if you can build your own mobile payment platform, the cost will save. Computer Accessories

In fact earlier, wal-mart announced will jointly a few other retailers develop mobile payment network - Merchant Customer Exchange, aim to replace the traditional credit card system such as Visa, Mastercard. Although Google introduced wallet services have occupied pilot advantages, but as the most close to the customer consumption behavior of the retailers, relative to the operators and system developers, they know more about customer shopping habits. Earphones & Headsets

In the giant internal league mobile payment platform before has not been set up, and the traditional automated payment platform will continue to leading retailer of means of payment.