Sberbank has partnered with supermarket chain Magnit and plans to connect 100 stores in Moscow and Krasnodar to the service by June 2021. A pilot program is already running in ten shops. Sberbank customers must activate facial recognition for their account and choose the ‘pay with a glance’ option at checkout to access the service.
The Moscow metro is launching a similar service in 2021, Face Pay, to quicken the flow of people.
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