WeChat Scan&Go won iF Gold Award

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今年3月，微信“扫码购”服务因其巧妙的零售创新设计而获得iF设计奖金奖。这是第一个获得iF服务设计类金奖的中国产品。德国iF设计奖创立于1953年，它一直因其“独立、严谨、可靠”的评奖理念而闻名于世。

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WeChat，one of the world's most popular mobile apps and social networks，brought home iF Gold Award for its smart retail innovation，Scan&Go.It is the first ever Chinese product to win gold in the iF Service Design category．

Established in 1953，the German-based iF Design Award has always been known for its“Independent，Rigorous（严谨的）and Reliable”standards.

Scan&Go enables shoppers at retail stores to turn their mobile phone into a virtual checkout counter. When shopping， customers use their mobile phones to scan product barcodes（条形码），view product information，get discounts，complete self-checkout，and pay directly within the app via WeChat Pay.There is no queuing up at the cash register．

“This concept shows a customer-centric scan-and-go-solution for an optimized shopping and retail context.All parameters（决定因素）of the good user experience are met in this service design，including touchless access，efficiency or ease-of-use in scanning of market products and the final payment and checkout.This is a user-friendly design at its best，”says iF Gold Award in its Gold Statement to Scan&Go．

According to statistics，sales during peak hours in traditional supermarkets account for 60%of total turnover，and on average customers spend three to five minutes on queuing and payment during peak hours．

With Scan&Go，customers no longer have to queue，and the payment time is shortened to one minute．

In order to realize queue-less purchasing，the WeChat team greatly optimized retailers'instore customer handling efficiency during peak hours，and enables overall management of the consumer traffic flow.By introducing dedicated lanes for Scan & Go， supermarkets have achieved over a five-fold increase in converting（转变）digital members within two months.

In addition to improving retailers'checkout efficiency and providing customers with a better shopping experience，Scan&Go also combines promotion and marketing modes through Mini Programs，to help increase sales.It helps retailers to link the online and offline aspects of their business，and has become the standard tool in China for merchants to realize digital transformation. Scan & Go is now widely used by retailers in China， including WalMart and Carrefour．

Reading Check

1.What does the third paragraph mainly tell us？

A.The use of a virtual checkout counter. B.The convenience of Scan&Go．

C.Ways to get discounts from retailers． D.Methods of scanning product barcodes．

2.What can retailers do by combining promotion and marketing modes？

A.Sell more goods． B.Reduce the discounts．

C.Create more Mini Programs． D.Make their goods more standard．

Language Study

Ⅰ.Important vocabulary in the text

1.innovation n.创新

2.cash register 收银机

3.efficiency n.效率

4.statistic n.统计数据

5.dedicated adj.专用的

6.transformation n.转变；变化

Ⅱ.Difficult sentence

When shopping，customers use their mobile phones to scan product barcodes，view product information，get discounts，complete self-checkout，and pay directly within the app via WeChat Pay.顾客在购物的时候，可以用手机扫描商品的条形码，查看商品信息，获取折扣，完成自助结账，而且可以通过微信支付直接付款。

【点石成金】本句中的When shopping是省略句，句子补全为When they are shopping。 由于主句的主语和从句的主语一致，而且从句中含有be动词，所以省略了从句的主语和be动词。句子的谓语是use，to scan、view、get、complete和pay是动词不定式短语作目的状语。