FRISCO, Texas — Modelo Continente SGPS, the leading Portuguese retail arm of the Sonae Group, is the first retailer in Portugal to implement a self-checkout system, from Frisco, Texas-based Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc.
Modelo Continente operates a total of 480 stores, including hypermarkets, supermarkets and specialty retail stores in Portugal and Brazil with consolidated gross sales of about U.S. $4.8 billion as of Dec. 31, 2004.
"Self-checkout will help further differentiate our stores and offer our customers new shopping services and options," said Paulo Magalhaes, chief information officer of Modelo Continente. "We selected Fujitsu's U Scan system because it was the solution that best fit our criteria: functionality, usability, cost and implementation deadline."
Magalhaes says the self-checkout systems are currently limited to Modelo Continente's Hypermarkets, but the company is considering expanding to other food and non-food chains under the Modelo Continente umbrella.
