Shop with your cell phone:<\/strong> the customer uses his cell phone to account for his purchases and to pay, all without any form of waste of time since once the products in the basket, he can leave without any delay (as in the prototype stores of Whole Foods \/ Amazon Go).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIt is quite clear that the adoption of these technologies will allow supermarket chains to save in the long run in operating costs and also, possibly, to be a little more competitive with the convenience stores, since the duration of 6 min. 15 for a pint of milk could be reduced to 4 min. approximately.<\/p>\n
However, these innovations will require massive investments and will be quite complicated to implement, which is why only giants such as Amazon and Walmart have ventured so far.<\/p>\n
Will our national chains like Sobeys\/IGA, Loblaw\/Provigo and Metro live up to the challenge? And how much longer before they have direct competition, at their doors? Time is running out.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Walmart opened in Longueuil a new generation store, as can be seen in the following video:<\/p>\n