Shekel tech powers new Nourish + Bloom Market checkout free store

Autonomous grocery store Nourish + Bloom Market has opened to the public in Fayetteville, Georgia, USA.

Nourish + Bloom Market is the first store of its kind with robotic delivery in the United States and the first African American owned autonomous grocery location in the world.

Husband and wife entrepreneurs Jamie and Jilea Hemmings started the venture to offer over 1,000 locally sourced, healthy food products, including produce, meats, baked goods, dairy and prepared meals.

The new store features Shekel's solutions for real-time identification of shelf products.

Shekel's technology will combine with Hitachi's consumer tracking technology.

Customers will use a N+B app, developed by UST, make their purchases, and be charged via their payment systems, eliminating the need for checkouts.

An e-receipt will be sent to the app.

“We are proud to partner with a new retail chain that promotes and operates on the values of innovation, sustainability and community,” says Rami Bahar, Chief Business Development Manager at Shekel.

“Shekel is at the forefront of retail tech with an outstanding combination of patented IoT sensors and artificial intelligence-based algorithms, resulting in the best product recognition technology available today.”

Bahar adds: “Our groundbreaking technology enables a scalable implementation of autonomous shopping, at reasonable costs, without operational limitations while completely maintaining the privacy of the shoppers.”

“The partnership with Hitachi and UST, each a leader in its field, enables us to offer a holistic and complete product, with an attractive return on investment model that allows, for the first time, a profitable roll-out of autonomous store networks.”