New system lets Kroger shoppers pay with fingerprint
By DAVID KAPLAN
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
COLLEGE STATION -- At Kroger stores here customers are getting their groceries without cash, check or credit card.
No, they're not using the five-finger discount. One finger will do.
They rely on a new little machine called SecureTouch-n-Pay which enables a finger to bring home the bacon and give cash back.
In the Bryan-College Station area, Kroger is trying out the new retail point-of-sale system in its three stores.
Shoppers who enroll free of charge to use the finger image machine -- officially known as a biometric electronic financial transaction processing system -- simply walk up to a cashier, say, "I'm going to pay with my fingerprint" and voil
By DAVID KAPLAN
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
COLLEGE STATION -- At Kroger stores here customers are getting their groceries without cash, check or credit card.
No, they're not using the five-finger discount. One finger will do.
They rely on a new little machine called SecureTouch-n-Pay which enables a finger to bring home the bacon and give cash back.
In the Bryan-College Station area, Kroger is trying out the new retail point-of-sale system in its three stores.
Shoppers who enroll free of charge to use the finger image machine -- officially known as a biometric electronic financial transaction processing system -- simply walk up to a cashier, say, "I'm going to pay with my fingerprint" and voil
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