All 500-plus Whole Foods stores will soon let you pay with a palm scan
Amazon is bringing its palm-scanning technology to even more Whole Foods stores. By the end of this year, Amazon says you’ll be able to pay for your purchase using just the palm of your hand at the over 500 Whole Foods locations it has throughout the US.
The palm-scanning tech is part of Amazon One, a service that lets you link your Amazon account and payment information to your palm print. Once your palm print is in Amazon’s system, you can hover your palm over an Amazon One scanner, and it will charge the payment method that’s tied to your Amazon account.
After first rolling out the palm scanners to some of its Go stores, it later introduced the tech to over 200 Whole Foods locations in California, New York, Texas, and several other...