Amazon has installed technology for scanning the palm or paying without a cash register in more than 200 facilities of the company and other retail chains, said the vice president of this company.
Dilip Kumar, the vice president of the e-commerce giant, announced that the company is increasing the availability of its contactless technology to its current customers.
Amazon didn’t disclose exact figures, but the company said in June 2022 that it uses the technology at 69 locations in the United States and Great Britain, Reuters writes.
Also, the company closes new deals. American coffee chain Panera Bread has introduced Amazon One devices at all of its locations in St. Louis, which allow customers to pay for their orders by scanning their palms. Kumar said the company would install the devices in 10 or 20 Panera coffee shops in the coming months.
According to the two companies, palm-scan purchases would also allow Panera to open rewards accounts and order history for restaurant patrons.
He stated that the expansions indicate the need for Amazon’s contactless technology despite macroeconomic conditions. There have been more than 50 deployments at separate outlets, stadiums, and educational organizations. In contrast, the company installed the rest of the devices in Amazon stores and Whole Foods.
More Amazon layoffs coming
The development of this technology led the e-commerce company to announce the elimination of an additional 9,000 jobs, or a total of 27,000 layoffs, since November. Some jobs in the AWS unit, the cloud computing sector where Kumar works, will be cut.
He said the layoffs indicate “no change in strategy” for AWS, which sells technology for retail and other business applications. He expected that the current economic turbulence would not affect part of the business.
