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In pictures: Go fully contactless shopping at this new Dubai store

Carrefour City+ gets some help from cutting-edge AI solutions to make it happen

Published: September 06, 2021 13:09 Manoj Nair, Business Editor and Nivetha Dayanand, Web Editor

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Stock-Warehouse — UAE’s retailers have already brought in the robots to their stores and warehouses. Now, they are ready with AI-backed features to make it easier for shoppers. Image Credit: Shutterstock

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526911-01-02-(Read-Only) — That’s what the Carrefour City+ store is promising, where any item picked up by a customer will get automatically added to a ‘digital’ shopping basket. Image Credit: AFP

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Amazon_Delivery_Robots_00262 — The sale then gets completed by the simple process of the shopper walking out. That’s right, and that is what the AI-enabled store promises to deliver. Image Credit: Amazon via AP

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Grocery shopping? — The shopper goes through the entire buying experience without any form of contact with staff. Image Credit: Gulf News Archives

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Stock - Carrefour City+ — How does this work? At the Carrefour City+, customers use their smartphones to access the store and then pick up whatever they came in for. Store access and shopping payment is enabled via the current MAF Carrefour App. Image Credit: Supplied

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Copy of 142488-01-02-1592289207516 — UAE retail groups have speeded up “contactless” processes at their stores, initially by doing away with the need to queue up at the cash register. As of now, only select stores have such features, but wider deployment is only a matter of time once retailers and their shoppers get used to it. Image Credit: AFP

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Carrefour — After a year of the COVID-19 and with safety-first shopping habits to remain in place, the rollout of more contactless stores is a cert. Coupled with the gradual removal of contactless payments, this could well be the retail trend at brick-and-mortar stores in the next two to three years. Image Credit: Supplied

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1.1940920-3664295425 — As is the case with much of retail these days, Amazon has been the frontrunner, deploying such technology at their Go stores in the US. Now, UAE shoppers are getting their sights of what the future of retail will look like right now. Image Credit: REUTERS

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