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Re:Biometric payment system trialled in supermarket by dmourati on Saturday September 23, 2017 @06:40PM (#15322170)
In 2006 or so I interviewed at a San Francisco startup called Pay By Touch that had this implemented at grocery stores in the US. They have since shuttered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_By_Touch

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Re:Biometric payment system trialled in supermarket by dracyr on Sunday September 24, 2017 @05:04AM (#15323989)
I remember a startup trying the same kind of tech at our university in Sweden, also now shut down.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/quixter/

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