China's Tencent opens cashier-less pop-up store in Shanghai
27 Jan 2018 11:20 PM IST
Beijing: Chinese Internet giant Tencent has opened its first cashier-less pop-up store in Shanghai in a move to tap into the country's promising unmanned retail industry.
At the 300-square meter shop named We Life, shoppers can use WeChat Pay, the proprietary e-wallet of messenger app WeChat, to buy items without paying cash, swiping a card, or interacting with a single human being, according to state-run China Daily.
Customers can use a phone to scan a quick response code at the gate, which enables user identification and automatic payment. All products are equipped with radio-frequency identification tags that use magnetic chips to store information such as price and inventory.
The store will be open until February 4 and showcases Tencent's payment capabilities in the realm of physical retail, the report quoted Bai Zhenjie, an executive in charge of retail at WeChat Pay, as saying.
Facial recognition and a credit rating system would be incorporated in future stores, Bai said.
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