Amazon speeds up palm recognition payment [Video]

At a time when Amazon is quietly winding down its checkout-free supermarket experiment, last week the American group made official the acceleration of its offer enabling retailers to charge customers by palm recognition.

US consumers (the device is not yet available in Europe) can now download the Amazon One application, on which the palm of their hand can be linked to their Amazon account. Previously, this fingerprint creation could only be done at an equipped point of sale. This step was a prerequisite for extending the system to a larger number of shops, to which palm recognition devices are offered.

Launched in 2021, the Amazon One payment method is said to have been used more than 8 million times in the more than 500 Whole Foods shops owned by Amazon in the United States. But the identification and payment device has also reportedly found its way to 150 third-party shops, stadiums, airports and gyms.

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