Recently, the O2O business model has emerged. Customers place orders online and checkout offline through Alipay wallets on their mobile phones. Supermarket retail enterprises and Alipay are becoming a trend. Mobile payment, an emerging payment method, is also rapidly gaining popularity. At the end of April, Carrefour and China Resources Vanguard announced the access to Alipay. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 80 supermarket chains, including Carrefour, Century Lianhua, China Resources Vanguard, CISTO, 7-Eleven, Shizu, Haode, Wuhan Zhongbai, etc., have already connected to Alipay.

The rise of mobile payments presents both an opportunity and a challenge for companies in the automatic identification industry. Traditional laser barcode scanners do not support scanning one-dimensional barcodes on mobile phone screens, and currently there are not many one-dimensional scanners that support scanning barcodes on mobile phone screens. This is undoubtedly a huge challenge for companies that master image-based barcode scanning technology. opportunity. For traditional laser scanner manufacturers, this is a huge challenge.