Wave and pay: Amazon to expand use of hand recognition payment system

Amazon is working on checkout terminals where customers can ‘wave and pay’, for brick-and-mortar stores other than Whole Foods Market, which it owns, the Wall Street Journal reported.

It will offer custom checkout counters enabled by its patented hand-recognition technology to various food stores and coffee shops, the report said.

The tech giant had first tested the system at its New York offices, where employees used the technology at a handful of vending machines to purchase items such as sodas, chips, granola bars and phone chargers, according to sources quoted by a New York Post report.