This French supermarket chain is testing payment with the palm of the hand

This is a first in Europe. Payment with the palm of the hand has arrived in a French supermarket chain.

Contactless or mobile payment is now commonplace. This saves time by not typing your code for the first and the second avoids having to carry your card. And if soon neither one nor the other was necessary ? Payment with the palm of the hand begins à To be tested and gently emerges. Already set up by Amazon in the United States in Whole Foods, a test is launched; in France in a large chain of supermarkets.

The principle is to associate the handprint with the handprint. a bank account. During this test, customers will be able to record their fingerprint on a terminal and then associate it with a device. their bank card. Once this maneuver is carried out, they will only have to'' pass their hand over a payment terminal to validate their purchases.

The system used will be that of the company Ingenico, which has been offering biometric transactions for several years. It allows à using infrared sensor to analyze the blood flow of the hand to identify it.

The aim is to improve checkout times, according to Alexandre Bompard, head of the Carrefour group, in a press release, reported by BFMTV. This process is being tested in the Carrefour Market Paris Seine store, located in the 6th arrondissement, starting July 29. The date has not been set. chosen at random, since it falls shortly after the start of the Olympic Games and could therefore help to smooth out the checkout process in this supermarket in the capital.

This payment method may be worrying from a security point of view. The Carrefour press release highlighted the “very strong security” of personal and banking data. The company Ingenico, for its part, ensured that “every person has a unique vein pattern in their palm, palm vein identification is one of the most accurate and secure biometric technologies in the world. It is less intrusive and more secure than other alternatives, such as fingerprints and facial recognition.” It remains to be seen whether customers will embrace it. this method so that it can then be deployed in other Carrefour stores and even extended to the various French supermarket chains.