SINGAPORE - A new supermarket in Pasir Panjang does not accept cash. And even if it did there are no cashiers to accept it.

Welcome to the new "habitat"&nbsp;supermarket - a 60,000 sq ft retail space with a fully automated check-out system where customers pay using a smartphone app&nbsp;and robots pack their groceries into bags. The cashless store, the first of its kind in Singapore, is a rare move by a tech start-up into the brick-and-mortar retail space.&nbsp;

Created by home-grown company honestbee, it stocks 20,000 products including fresh produce, seafood and meat. It is due to open on Thursday (Oct 18).

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 Habitat by honestbee is the local online grocery and food delivery service's new supermarket in Pasir Panjang, which will launch on Oct 18, 2018. The physical retail space spans 60,000 sq ft and stocks 20,000 products including fresh produce, seafood and meat.

All payments at the store are made via honestbee's app. Shoppers buying 10 grocery items or less can scan each item using the smartphone app and pay on the go.

To checkout at habitat by honestbee, customers place their grocery cart into an automated system (pictured here), where it is sent behind the scenes for the items to be picked up, scanned and packed into a recyclable bag. The process takes about five minutes. 

When customers are ready to leave, they scan their unique QR code on the honestbee app at a collection point (pictured here). This will prompt the robots to deliver the bag of purchases to the customer.

According to honestbee, this robotic check-out and collection system can handle 300 customer orders per hour.

Alternatively, customers buying 10 grocery items or fewer can use their smartphone to scan each item and pay using the honestbee app.

The cashless store, the first of its kind in Singapore, is a rare move by a tech start-up into the brick-and-mortar retail space.

It is due to open on Thursday (Oct 18), at a time when the online grocery and food delivery market is becoming increasingly competitive here, with players such as RedMart and Amazon Prime as well as foodpanda, Deliveroo and GrabFood.

Honestbee, which was founded in 2015, started out as  a grocery delivery service, but later introduced laundry and food delivery services.

Habitat by honestbee also features 15 food stalls, where customers can have a meal while waiting for their groceries to be packed. These include Tokyo pancake cafe Riz Labo Kitchen, known for its Japanese souffle pancakes, and local bakery Lazy Loaf, which sells homemade breads and spreads.

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SINGAPORE - A new supermarket in Pasir Panjang does not accept cash. And even if it did there are no cashiers to accept it. Welcome to the new "habitat" supermarket - a 60,000 sq ft retail space with a fully automated check-out system where customers pay using a smartphone app and robots pack their groceries into bags. The cashless store,...

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