Carrefour wants to save loss-making hypermarkets with technology

More than half of the Carrefour hypermarkets in France are loss-making. The group is investing in mobile payment options and an Amazon Go variant to make shopping as easy as possible. Mobile payments currently make up for less than 5 percent of transactions. Carrefour announced that it is adding its loyalty card to Apple Pay, so that it is automatically activated for mobile payments via iPhone or the smartwatch. For Android, a similar solution is going to follow.