Amazon One's Palm-Payment Technology Set to Enhance Shopping Experience, to be Introduced in all Whole Foods Stores by Yead End

Amazon.Com, Inc AMZN plans to allow shoppers to pay with their palms at all Whole Foods stores by the end of the year.

Amazon One is a biometric technology that lets users enter and pay for store items by placing a palm over a scanning device, CNBC reports.

Shoppers need to connect their palm to a stored credit card. After that, they can pay by simply waving their hand over the kiosk.

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Amazon.Com launched the technology in its Go cashier-less stores but later added it to Whole Foods supermarkets. 

Amazon One is now in over 200 Whole Foods locations and will be available in the upscale grocer’s roughly 500 stores in the coming months.

Amazon acknowledged seeing “growing demand” for the technology, recording 3 million uses of Amazon One.

It has increasingly marketed its physical store technologies to third parties as part of a unit now under its Amazon Web Services cloud division. 

Amazon bagged deals with airport stores, sports stadiums, and concert venues to install its palm-based payment tech and cashier-less checkout system called Just Walk Out.

The new payment option will likely require a lesser workforce. Amazon eliminated 27,000 jobs since 2022. 

Price Action: AMZN shares traded lower by 0.60% at $134.55 on the last check Wednesday.

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