Alcohol as well, non-members can go in at buy that too.
> "It helps speed up the process," Richard Galanti, Costco's former chief financial officer, told Axios in January.
> "When you go through checkout, particularly self-checkout, there's not someone there having to review the card again," Galanti said.
As far as I can tell, it's not going to prevent reviews at checkout (unless there are scanners there), not to mention the card still needs to be used to tie the purchases to the member... it's not like they are going to be like Amazon Go. Even if it does speed up checkout, it will just move the slowdown from checkout to store entry, so it doesn't seem like anything is actually being saved.
> "It helps speed up the process," Richard Galanti, Costco's former chief financial officer, told Axios in January.
> "When you go through checkout, particularly self-checkout, there's not someone there having to review the card again," Galanti said.
As far as I can tell, it's not going to prevent reviews at checkout (unless there are scanners there), not to mention the card still needs to be used to tie the purchases to the member... it's not like they are going to be like Amazon Go. Even if it does speed up checkout, it will just move the slowdown from checkout to store entry, so it doesn't seem like anything is actually being saved.