Whole Foods trying out palm price scanners

Starting Wednesday, customers at the Whole Foods store in Seattle were able to pay for their groceries with their palms.

Amazon, which acquired the grocery chain in 2017, has installed its Amazon One palm-scanning devices at one of the Seattle Whole Foods stores. The company plans to expand the contactless technology to seven additional Seattle-area Whole Foods stores in coming months.

So far, thousands of customers have signed up to use the terminals, Kumar said. Users register by scanning their palm and connecting it to a credit card or Amazon account, then scanning their palm again to pay. Their biometric payment profile follows them to every store with Amazon One cashiers.