Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/18
By: Kuo Hsin-yi and Flor Wang 

Taipei, July 18 (CNA) President Chain Store Corporation (PCSC), the largest convenience store chain in Taiwan, opened its second unstaffed store in Taipei Monday, eying the tremendous profit potential of such stores.

The second X-STORE, located in the bustling Xinyi District, operates round the clock in a bid to cash in on the large crowds of white-collar workers and students there, said Hsu Yi- hsiung (許義雄), chief of the company’s project management department.

The new store allows customers to enter with a facial- recognition card or an icash 2.0 card and they can pay the bill with the icash 2.0 card in the checkout area after verifying their identity with the facial-recognition card at a human-free counter, Hsu said.

Inside the store, an intelligent ATM machine using finger vein and facial recognition technology offers multi-language services and allows customers to deposit small change and withdraw foreign currencies, Hsu noted.
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