Worcester Red Sox has retrofitted a convenience/memorabilia shop at their home stadium for frictionless shopping.
The team, a Triple-A minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team, partnered with retail computer vision platform provider Standard AI to retrofit the “WooSox” market store located near centerfield in its Polar Park stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts first announced in September 2019, the store leverages artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cameras and the cloud to provide a fully autonomous shopping experience.
Standard AI retrofitted the WooSox Market store, which sells snacks and sports memorabilia, using ceiling-mounted cameras and proprietary computer vision software which associates each shopper with the items they pick up. After adding their payment information to the Standard AI checkout app, customers can enter the store, select the items they want, and tap their phone to walk out.
Customers will then receive an accurate receipt in minutes. WooSox Market officially opened for business on Saturday during the “Inaugural WooSox Winter Wonderland” holiday celebration. The Standard AI platform does not use facial recognition.
