I've just nipped into an Aldi in Greenwich to grab a couple of bits and feel like I've just stepped into the future.
When you enter you're met with electric barriers which you have to tap your card on in order to enter. When you tap, aldi takes a £10 holding charge which goes towards your shopping.
As soon as you pass through the barriers you are picked up by some high tech smart camera which follows you around the shop.
Whatever you pick up from the shelves is added to your shopping bill, unless you put it back exactly where you picked it up from.
To leave, you have to tap your card on the barriers again at which point a code is sent to your online banking. You then scan a QR code and enter the 5 digit number on the banking transaction, at which point you get your receipt on screen.
Apparently the receipt process is slightly simpler if you have the Aldi app, which I don't.
There wasn't one member of staff on the floor, just the security guard at the front whom was baffled as to why the whole thing confused me.
Who else has come across this? It was completely bizarre. Have I been living under a rock?