EDEKA offers a fingerprint-pay-system option

When it comes to modes of payment the leading German food retail chain EDEKA will in future also be relying on a fingerprint pay system. In the town of Rülzheim in the Palatinate the group in cooperation with the independent businessman Roland Fitterer and the Internet and biometrics services provider it-werke has opened a supermarket the check-outs of which are equipped with capacitative fingerprint scanners that provide customers with the additional option, besides cash or card, of paying by having their fingerprints checked.

Published in Heise Online.