Online shopping on Amazon is ramping up deployment of its non-contact payment dubbed, “Amazon One,” announcing more than 60 locations from New York to California will feature the touchless devices. These devices can make contactless payment in retail stores, by hovering your palm over a scanner.

• Amazon One needs to be set up by inserting a card on the user’s first use but after that, the device is completely contactless.
• While the device has a great deal of potential, there are fears around introducing the device during COVID-19, with the likely user-education that is needed to stop consumers from pressing their palms on the device.

In the midst of a pandemic when customers are sometimes sporting plastic gloves to shops alongside their face masks, Amazon’s bodily retail staff is introducing a brand new biometric machine that can permit customers to pay at Amazon Go shops using their palm. The corporate launched its purportedly “contactless” Amazon One, a scanner of kinds the place you’ll first insert your bank card, then hover your palm over the machine to affiliate your palm signature along with your cost mechanism. As soon as your card is on file, you’ll be capable to enter the shop sooner or later simply by holding your palm above the Amazon One device for a second or so.

“The reality is introducing new technology is convincing people to use it. How much easier is it to use than pulling out your credit card and paying that way.

The Amazon One is being trialed at two Seattle-area stores, including the original Amazon Go store at 7th & Blanchard and the store in South Lake Union at 300 Boren Ave. North. It won’t replace the other ways to enter the stores, however. Customers can still enter using the Amazon Go app, Amazon app or with associate assistance if they want to pay in cash.