Walmart's Cloud-Powered POS System Touted as Scalable
Walmart’s cloud-powered checkout system lets the retailer “stay nimble” and deliver a positive customer experience, blogged Wes Sweet, vice president-global tech. The Cloud Powered Checkout (CPC) system was born from an effort to expedite the checkout experience in Walmart’s garden…
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departments and ended up changing the point of sale (POS) landscape, Sweet said Thursday. It's scalable, processing billions of transactions globally. Walmart’s previous POS system primarily used stationary terminals and was written in a coding language that wasn’t broadly used, making it a “hindrance” for developers, said Sweet. It was also tightly coupled to a proprietary operating system and limited the retailer’s options for different experiences such as mobile, he said. CPC was built as an e-commerce system first, leveraging common architecture, he said. It can run on different clouds or at the edge in a store and integrates with business services using standard application programming interface patterns, making it easier for tech teams to deploy additional features, said Sweet. CPC is in all U.S. stores and clubs and in most global markets. The system enabled stores in Canada to create a self-service checkout experience with a different layout and hardware supplier than other Walmart markets, he said.