NEW YORK (AP) —
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is expanding a test of a new checkout program that
allows shoppers to scan items with their smartphones and then pay at
self-checkout terminals.
The world's largest retailer launched
what it calls its "Scan & Go" program late last year in about 70
stores in the Bentonville, Ark., area, where the retailer is based, as
well as Atlanta. It is now testing the program in more than 200 stores.
The new markets include Dallas, Houston, Austin, Texas; Denver,
Portland, Ore., and Seattle.
It works like this: customers scan
bar codes of the different products using the retailer's Scan & Go
app on Apple Inc.'s iPads, iPhones or iPod Touch devices. The app
generates a code, which can be scanned at the self-checkout terminals.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
