Sam’s Club phasing out checkouts, betting big on AI shopping

Sam's Club, the Walmart-owned membership warehouse, is rolling out a major change to its grocery payment system and embracing artificial intelligence (AI).

The retail giant plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores and create a friction-free shopping experience which will include customers scanning goods on the go with an app and then having and AI scanner verify the goods as customers leave. The technology would eliminate the need for receipt checks at the door.

The system, known as "Scan & Go," was initially launched in April 2024 and allows members to use the Sam’s Club mobile app to scan their products.

The latest announcement adds the AI check, known as "Just Walk"/"Just Go" exit, to the process and will see the option of traditional checkouts being eliminated.

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Sam’s Club phasing out checkouts, betting big on AI shopping

Sam's Club plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores, replacing them with a system where members scan items using an app and AI technology verifies purchases as they exit.

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[1LoverofGod]

My daughter shops at Sam's Club.
She's been shopping with Scan and Go for a couple of years now.
She uses her phone to scan the products and walks out of the store without having to use a check out process.
The store has her banking information and just takes the scanned products charges from her account.
I'm sure this will be implemented in every store before too long.

 

[Armor of Light]

We don't have smart phones so I guess we won't be shopping there. Hope we get a refund on the membership.

 

[RonJohnSilver]

Sam's Club, the Walmart-owned membership warehouse, is rolling out a major change to its grocery payment system and embracing artificial intelligence (AI).

The retail giant plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores and create a friction-free shopping experience which will include customers scanning goods on the go with an app and then having and AI scanner verify the goods as customers leave. The technology would eliminate the need for receipt checks at the door.

The system, known as "Scan & Go," was initially launched in April 2024 and allows members to use the Sam’s Club mobile app to scan their products.

The latest announcement adds the AI check, known as "Just Walk"/"Just Go" exit, to the process and will see the option of traditional checkouts being eliminated.

Complete Article

Sam’s Club phasing out checkouts, betting big on AI shopping

Sam's Club plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores, replacing them with a system where members scan items using an app and AI technology verifies purchases as they exit.

www.foxbusiness.com

Our Sam's has that and it's handy.

 

[mattfivefour]

I like to pay with cash. Now I'm going to have to put cash into the bank so I can spend it? I'm going to have to think long and hard before I continue with Sam's once they introduce this.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Yet another way to implement "surge pricing" without the consumer realizing until he or she looks at his or her cc or bank account after the fact, and then the prices would have changed again and again and again, so hard to prove fraud . . .

 

[janeelaine]

thats easy. if everyone just stopped going to S-club, then guess what might happen? your imagination is as good as mine.

but most people are more talk than action. "oh sams club im so mad at you." but really THIS is where we draw the line? why not have drawn the line at their huge use of products from slave labor etc? any other number of huge issues with their business model. but no , so many people who should know better, still go.

child sex toys on amazon in the meantime. "yeah but amazons so cheap hahah" yes someone actually said that but not here. but thats representative of so many people who just go along to get along and think they are making an individual choice at the same time. no attempt to care, no, this arbitrary-compared-to-child-slave-labor issue is where we draw the line?

not to be brash im just expressive right now and sorry if im hitting hard just saying the thoughts.

btw this is part of what i mean by standing apart from the world; being not conformed to it. its buying from these companies, especially on a regular basis and spending quite a bit, that constitutes your votes in this world. want freedom but love using alexa? sorry but youre eating from the enemies hand. really hurts to see what people say on this christian site sometimes.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

thats easy. if everyone just stopped going to S-club, then guess what might happen? your imagination is as good as mine.

but most people are more talk than action. "oh sams club im so mad at you." but really THIS is where we draw the line? why not have drawn the line at their huge use of products from slave labor etc? any other number of huge issues with their business model. but no , so many people who should know better, still go.

child sex toys on amazon in the meantime. "yeah but amazons so cheap hahah" yes someone actually said that but not here. but thats representative of so many people who just go along to get along and think they are making an individual choice at the same time. no attempt to care, no, this arbitrary-compared-to-child-slave-labor issue is where we draw the line?

not to be brash im just expressive right now and sorry if im hitting hard just saying the thoughts.

btw this is part of what i mean by standing apart from the world; being not conformed to it. its buying from these companies, especially on a regular basis and spending quite a bit, that constitutes your votes in this world. want freedom but love using alexa? sorry but youre eating from the enemies hand. really hurts to see what people say on this christian site sometimes.

There are a lot of people on here (and back on the other place), who do what they can to avoid patronizing objectionable places.
Some places, it's a LOT easier than others than to do so. If WalMart is literally the only store even sort of reasonably close, I don't fault people for going there. Ditto if it's the only affordable place. If the only gas station anywhere close is Sam's Club, what is someone reasonably to do.

Sam Walton gave free lifetime memberships to Sam's Club to retired military as a thank you for service and appreciation that Freedom isn't Free.
After he died, his greedy children ended it.
I refused to buy a membership and buy there just on the principle that Sam wouldn't have wanted it that way.

No Alexa, EchoDot, etc. here. Unfortunately, my hearing aids are smart devices, which can be tracked without my consent or knowledge. OTOH, the fall detection and locator function could save my life someday. In and of themselves, they're not evil.

I'm not perfect, but for years I didn't shop at Target because of the restroom policy and an incident that happened while I was there that store management refused to address. I still try to avoid them and only go as a last resort. I've also found Fleet Farm to have far, far more Made in USA products, etc. than any of the other big box stores, and cheaper than WalMart, so have managed to avoid them for awhile and will continue to do so. I've been avoiding Made in China stuff to the extent possible for many years, and Made in Viet Nam and Cambodia since the 1970s.

It's actually easier to avoid some things now, since it's only dog and me. When caregiving elderly Parents, expediency, time, and cost had to be taken into account to ensure they had what was necessary and what they wanted. It was also honoring my Parents to do as they desired, IAW God's Commands.

 

[Baby Yoda]

My daughter shops at Sam's Club.
She's been shopping with Scan and Go for a couple of years now.
She uses her phone to scan the products and walks out of the store without having to use a check out process.
The store has her banking information and just takes the scanned products charges from her account.
I'm sure this will be implemented in every store before too long.

That's how we have been doing it for quite a while. They don't even need to stop us most of the time leaving (to check items) because they know exactly what we have put in the cart before we reach the exit. Not sure why most folks still stand in the ridiculously long check out lines instead of doing this. They will have records of what you purchase either way. (unless you pay in cash, and even then I have a feeling they are watching and recording everything.)

 

[Tall Timbers]

I believe I've used scan and go at Sam's a time or two, but forget they have that most of the time.

Anything that makes the experience easier is a plus in my book. I don't participate where stores want to link to my bank account but will participate when payment goes to my credit card.

I'm not a boycotter by my nature. I'm not judgmental towards those who think I should boycott companys X, Y, and Z.

 

[Andiamo]

Thing is if we boycotted and were consistent we wouldn’t have anywhere left to buy things. I’d like to know the name of one store online or brick that has zero unethical products or processes.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Thing is if we boycotted and were consistent we wouldn’t have anywhere left to buy things. I’d like to know the name of one store online or brick that has zero unethical products or processes.

Exactly. That's one reason why it is pointless.