EDEKA Beckesepp store taps Diebold Nixdorf retail technology for AI powered self-service checkouts

Diebold Nixdorf has equipped a new EDEKA Beckesepp store in Waltershofen, Germany with self-service checkouts featuring its Smart Vision technology-based solutions for automated fruit and vegetable recognition and age verification.

With Vynamic Smart Vision | Fresh Produce Recognition, customers can capture products without barcodes, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, directly at the self-service checkout. A camera placed on top of the scale, combined with algorithms, identifies items and their quantities, which is then shown on the display. This eliminates the manual selection of fresh produce for customers or weighing and affixing a price label in the fresh produce section.

The Vynamic Smart Vision I Age Verification solution allows customers to automatically check their age.

When an age restricted item is scanned, customers are given the option to opt for automatic age recognition. Once consent is given, a camera installed in the system analyses the customer's facial characteristics using AI algorithms to determine their age.

The transaction can be continued if the customer’s age is above a predefined threshold. The attendants in the store during daytime operations can check customers who fall below this age limit or opt out of automatic age recognition. This system is GDPR compliant as the process does not involve facial recognition, nor does it store images or other customer information.

If customers wish to purchase age restricted items outside of the daytime opening hours, access to the store happens via an ID card, which then authorises them to make the purchase.

Johannes Ruf, owner of EDEKA Beckesepp, says: "When planning the new store, it was important for us to fulfill our role as a local supplier and combine customer convenience with optimum staff deployment.”

“While the self-service checkouts also allow us to operate at night, the two AI-based solutions minimise two of the most frequently cited hurdles that customers mention when using self-service solutions: The lengthy search for the right item when registering fresh goods and the personal interaction for the purchase of age-restricted goods."

The new store is located in a combined residential and commercial building. In addition to daytime operations, it will operate without staff from 6 p.m. to midnight Edeka Beckesepp is planning to equip additional stores with the self-service and AI technology from Diebold Nixdorf.

Leyla Feghhi, Head of Retail Sales in the DACH region at Diebold Nixdorf, says: "EDEKA Beckesepp is another excellent example of how our self-checkout and AI technologies support retailers in implementing modern store concepts.”

“Consumers can shop at a time and in a way that suits them best and benefit from a faster and more intuitive process at the self-service checkouts, which makes them less dependent on staff on site. With our first class services, we also ensure our technology is always ready to use."  

RTIH AI in Retail Awards

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As we witness a digital transformation revolution across all channels, AI tools are reshaping the omnichannel game, from personalising customer experiences to optimising inventory, uncovering insights into consumer behaviour, and enhancing the human element of retailers' businesses.

With 2025 set to be the year when AI and especially gen AI shake off the ‘heavily hyped’ tag and become embedded in retail business processes, our newly launched awards celebrate global technology innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world and the resulting benefits for retailers, shoppers and employees.

Our 2025 winners will be those companies who not only recognise the potential of AI, but also make it usable in everyday work - resulting in more efficiency and innovation in all areas.

Winners will be announced at an evening event at The Barbican in Central London on Wednesday, 3rd September.

This will kick off with a drinks reception in the stunning Conservatory, followed by a three course meal, and awards ceremony in the Garden Room.

Please email our Editor, Scott Thompson, if you have any questions or need further information: scott.thompson@retailtechinnovationhub.com

Key 2025 dates

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Wednesday, 3rd September: Winners announced at the 2025 RTIH AI in Retail Awards Ceremony, to be held at The Barbican in Central London.