A cashier-free shop sells gastronomic products from catch-up settlements

The catch-up settlements program, which serves to uplift the poorest villages, brings the latest developments to the most disadvantaged areas. Among the opportunity-creating, innovative solutions are the construction of social solar power plants that support environmentally friendly heating, the replacement of absent family doctors in small settlements with telemedicine orders, and most recently the sale of products from restarting backyard or small-scale production in automated stores. According to the basic principle of the program with the participation of 29 charitable, church and non-governmental organizations, the most disadvantaged areas need faster development in order to catch up with the others.

This is how the fruits of the everyday work of people living in catch-up settlements meet the most modern technology in Fetekert’s automated shop. The store opened on the Fény street market is currently the only store without a cash register in Hungary, where the customer simply walks out of the room with the goods taken from the shelves, and the amount of the purchase is automatically deducted from their card.