Scandit has announced Age Verified Self-Checkout, a new solution that enables retailers to automate and verify self-checkout purchases of age-restricted items.
Built for retailers selling products such as alcohol, tobacco and medication, Age Verified Self-Checkout delivers a fully autonomous checkout with no additional kiosk hardware required.
The company says the solution automatically resolves 80% of age checks in seconds, removing the need for staff intervention, while making the verification process six times faster for customers. It also claims the streamlined process can increase transactions across a retailer’s self-checkout fleet by 5%, helping to reduce queues and boost sales, particularly during peak trading periods.
The solution turns a customer’s smartphone into a private, secure age verification tool, allowing shoppers to verify their age in under 10 seconds without downloading an app, primarily using face estimation technology or, where required, by scanning their ID.
Christian Floerkemeier, CTO and Co-founder of Scandit said:
“Retailers are under pressure to deliver faster, more convenient self-checkout experiences, yet age-restricted sales remain a persistent bottleneck and one that only intensifies as self-checkout fleets scale.”
“Today, retailers are forced to choose between absorbing the ongoing labor cost of manual checks or investing in proprietary hardware, neither of which scales efficiently. Age Verified Self-Checkout removes this tradeoff by automating compliance in a fast, secure and hardware-free way, which reduces intervention and optimises labor.”
