Future Group's Kishore Biyani working on digital retail prototypes

Biyani said the group would set up a 20-million member network and build an ecosystem around it

Amid deal talks with global firms such as Google and Amazon, Kishore Biyani is working on several prototypes of digital retailing. The Future Group has opened 10 cashier-less stores in the country where shoppers can pick up goods and scan them, Biyani said at the India Retail Forum on Wednesday.

“The use of technology is increasing,” he said, adding that Aadhaar customers can order and pay online in the group's wholesale stores. 

The company has had two unsuccessful online ventures. Futurebazaar failed to take off and it shut its assisted e-commerce Big Bazaar Direct because of high costs. “The cost of doing