Square “has signed a deal to put its iPad-based payment systems inside Whole Foods Market grocers in the U.S., where they’ll be used at counters that sell ready-to-consume products — from pizza and sandwiches to coffee, beer and wine — as a supplement to the conventional checkouts at the front of the store,” Harry McCracken reports for TIME.
“Customers will be able to pay with credit and debit cards, cash and, in some locations, by using the Square Wallet smartphone app,” McCracken reports. “The idea is to expedite things both for people making a quick purchase from one of these venues and for those who are at the checkouts with a cartful of groceries.”
McCracken reports, “The agreement is Square’s second with a high-profile national retailer, after its 2012 partnership with Starbucks.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dan K.” and “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
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