By TOMOHIRO YAMAMOTO/ Staff Writer
August 31, 2021 at 18:45 JST
A customer can confirm her purchase of a snack as her smartphone screen shows the receipt for it after passing out of a gate of an unmanned convenience test store in Tokyo’s Koto Ward on Aug. 30. (Tomohiro Yamamoto)
No humans will be on hand to serve customers at a new Tokyo convenience store, to which shoppers enter by waving their smartphones at the gate and checkout without going through a cash register. [Read More]
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