Aldi comes to Utrecht with a checkout-free store: pay with your app
Supermarket chain Aldi has announced that it will open a new branch in Utrecht at the beginning of 2022. Unlike other branches, this will be a checkout-free store where the customer will be tracked with sensors, and the checkout will be done with a special app.
Aldi with checkout-free store
Albert Heijn experimented a while ago with a cashier-free store on a very small scale. Aldi is now going a step further and will come up with a ‘normal’ store, but where there will be no cash registers. The concept has recently come over from the United States. Aldi will open a test location in Utrecht in early 2022. It is Aldi Nord’s only test location in all of Europe.
Aldi says that the store will have an area of more than 500 square meters. Groceries are automatically settled through an app and sensors that register which products are placed in the shopping cart. There is no facial recognition and no eye or fingerprint scans are made. Only the movements of the customer and the item are tracked by the system.
As mentioned, the location will open in Utrecht in early 2022. The location is on the corner of the Oudegracht and the Lange Viestraat.
