New order : Trial Teine Hoshioki store brought in AI shopping carts from SuperHii

SuperHii Co., Ltd. was continuously launching AI shopping carts in Japanese Trial Supermarket. Recently,Trial Teine Hoshioki store, one of the chain store of Trial supermarket brought in 100 units AI shopping carts from SuperHii Co., Ltd. This Store locates in Shop 3-1-1 Hoshiki, Teine-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido,and the opening hours are 24 hours in every day.

SuperHii Co., Ltd is now the leading AI shopping cart manufacturer which deploys the largest number of AI shopping carts in the world.

(1) 2 main features of the SuperHii AI shopping carts

For Trial Teine Hoshioki store, this is their first try to rebuild their store to intelligent store. And they attach importance to 2 main features of the SuperHii AI shopping carts. One feature is that the AI shopping cart is a kind of self-checkout cart,which supports customers to check out by themselves. The other feature is that the AI shopping cart can prevent loss.

Let’s see a typical shopping scene using this AI shopping cart, you select items from the shelf, and scan item’s bar code. They you can directly throw items into the smart shopping cart basket. If you forget to scan one item, but have directly put this item into the basket. The AI shopping cart knows and will remind you to scan item or remove this item.

When you have done shopping,you can directly pay for your shopping bill on the shopping cart or through the self-checkout kiosks integrated with the AI shopping cart.

(2) New shopping experience

The AI shopping carts are dedicated designed for providing customers new shopping experience.

To use the AI shopping cart, customers directly use the Trial supermarket  membership card to log in, then customers scan items’ bar code on the bar code scanner to recognize the items, which avoids the process of waiting for checking out by the cashiers. When customers finish shopping, they finish the payment process via the cart or via a self-checkout machine, then they can directly pass a dedicated smart gate and leave the supermarket. The whole shopping process is smooth and fast for customers.

In addition, considering the large popularity of elderly people, also considering the requirements of the customers who are short in height, the AI shopping cart was designed to have the feature of “light to push, easy to view the screen and easy to purchase items.”

What’s more, the AI shopping cart has an AI brain, which detects normal operation and recommend to every customer suitable items according to their historical shopping data.

(3) AI shopping carts are popular in Japan

In Japan, currently, the AI shopping carts are used by about 1.8 million people per month, and about 11,000 units AI shopping carts are in operation , which has the largest number of operations in the world .That is to say, AI shopping carts are now popular in Japan.

The AI shopping cart is the first intelligent tool which can bring benefits to three parties, including customers, supermarket staff,and manufacturers. The AI shopping cart also provides a new shopping experience, which can also be regarded as “new lifestyles”, for instance, contactless shopping experience.

SuperHii Co., Ltd. will continue to drive further reforms in the retail marketplace in an effort to make life better for retail customers.(Author: SuperHii, Cindy Xin)

Reference 1: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000054.000043820.html

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