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Cash, charge or biometrics?

San Francisco Chronicle

Wednesday 2 February 2005, 3:58 pm
Keywords: Computer Topics , News Articles

/By Jo Best, Cnet News.com/

A Washington supermarket chain that gave customers the choice of paying by fingerprint says the experiment was so successful that it made the biometric service a standard option at a Seattle-area store.

Thriftway Stores of Washington introduced the system in 2002, using technology from San Francisco's Pay by Touch, and said it now sees thousands of transactions a month using the payment method.

Fraudulent transactions have dropped substantially because of the system, which now handles 30 percent of Thriftway's electronic payments.

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