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Germany’s first digital supermarket: Teo von Tegut. Picture: dpa / Björn Friedrich
The first supermarket without a cashier opens in Germany
Shopping without limits: this is the promise of the new supermarket that retailer Tegut has opened in Fulda, Hesse. This is Teo, the first fully automated digital shop in all of Germany, which can therefore be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This is possible because human personnel no longer have to work in the Teo. There are no cashiers, customers scan the goods themselves and pay by card. Access is also digitally controlled: if you want to enter, you need to register using your card or app.
Shopping habits have changed
With this supermarket model, Tegut prepares for the fact that the shopping habits of Germans have changed significantly. In the past, weekly shopping for the whole family dominated, but now more and more customers buy spontaneously and in smaller quantities, almost every day.
The new digital supermarkets should not be on the green field or in the industrial park, but in “urban spaces”, as the project manager Verena Kindinger explains “Osthessen-News”.
With this, Tegut is ahead of the internet giant Amazon. Earlier this year, it announced that Amazon wanted to launch its automated cashless supermarkets in Germany very soon. But now Tegut was faster.
(Self)
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