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Tesco teams with Israeli tech company to introduce cashierless stores

July 1, 2019

Tesco, a British supermarket chain, is developing technology in partnership with Israeli startup Trigo Vision to allow customers to load up shopping bags and exit without putting them through a cashier checkout experience, according to a Yahoo report.

The technology, an effort to compete against Amazon, includes AI-powered cameras and shelf sensors that detect what customers pull from shelves. 

Customers add payment information into an app or use screens displaying a running bill so that they can pay before leaving the store. 

Trigo Vision has $7 million in seed funding from Hetz Ventures and Vertex Ventures Israel and has also partnered with Shufersal, Israel's largest supermarket chain. 

Tesco plans to open an automated store in London.