Carrefour investing in NFC contactless payments

Carrefour investing in NFC contactless payments
Tags: Kiosks / Self-Service, POS, Payments, Self-Checkout, Supermarkets & Grocery Stores
January 29, 2009

International Supermarket News: Beginning February 11, Carrefour will work together with the country's leading mobile operators to put in place a series of large-scale Near Field Communication trials that will see consumers using NFC phones to make payments via the contactless MasterCard version, of its own brand credit/loyalty card, known as Pass. At the same time it has also signed a deal to install between 1,000 and 1,500 self-checkout machines, incorporating the ability to handle a wide range of advanced payments technologies including NFC.

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