Sam’s Club is a membership-only warehouse club owned by Walmart. Recently, it launched itself ahead of many other retailers by altering how customers can check out their carts.

In the past, the club would give out tangible receipts, but that has changed. They now use AI-enabled verification technology that can scan items people bought.

There is little doubt that the technology is still in its early stages, but it has already been deployed in more than 120 locations across the country. Of course, this does not mean you can’t check out the way you normally would. According to the retailer, more than half of its customers where the tech is available prefer to skip the queue, choosing instead to pay and go. As such, they get to walk out 23% faster than people who chose the traditional method.

Reports claim the handy technology was revealed to the world earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show. The technology was tested at several Sam’s Clubs before it was deployed to ensure that it was working just fine. Now, people in Texas, the Southwest, and parts of the South and Midwest have access to it as well.

The new tech functions with the Scan and Go feature on the Club’s mobile app. It works simply: Consumers ring up their orders themselves as they shop and pay, all without needing to go to a POS or cashier. When the shopping is done, they can pass through the blue checkout gate equipped with cameras to take pictures of the products. The pictures are then compared to the consumer’s order to make sure everything is right.

Sam’s Club’s chief product officer, Todd Garner, says the technology affords their customers extra convenience, and many have been praising them for it. Garner has also revealed that they can deploy the technology to about 600 clubs nationwide.

Before Sam’s Club introduced its members to the new tech, they used to pay for their purchases the traditional way. That involved getting in a queue, usually a long one, for your turn to meet the cashier. However, with this new tech, there’s less queuing, which frees up the store staff and allows customers to leave happily rather than frustrated.

Sam’s Club’s U.S. chief merchant, Megan Crozier, is proud of the franchise’s use of AI technology. In January, Crozier boasted that they were deploying the technology at scale, unlike Amazon, which made the decision to restrict its similar Just Walk Out technology to smaller grocery stores.

There have been accusations that Amazon’s JWO system needs many human workers to review the transactions. Sam’s Club’s technology doesn’t have this disadvantage as many will testify. According to the retailer, they have fewer than 40 staff members working on the technology.

Walmart, Sam’s Club’s parent company, also followed Amazon’s approach by removing self-checkout counters from its stores. The fact that Sam’s Club is using them so brazenly seems to clash with its parent company’s decision. Now, in Walmart stores, staffed counters are slowly returning, and this has merits.

It is a term for inventory loss caused by customers who forgot to scan a certain item or made similar mistakes. Sam’s Club has said nothing about merchandise loss. However, Artificial Intelligence can always make mistakes or be confused, as it is still a very new technology.

It is a term for inventory loss caused by customers who forgot to scan a certain item or made similar mistakes. Sam’s Club has said nothing about merchandise loss. However, Artificial Intelligence can always make mistakes or be confused, as it is still a very new technology.

The retailer is well ahead of the technology curve with its latest deployment. While it has risks, regardless of what you’re looking to buy at Sam’s, the AI-powered technology will scan purchases effectively, and if there are mistakes, they won’t happen forever as there will be more improvements in the coming days.