German Adeka Company, one of the world's top 500 companies, was founded in Germany in 1898, operating supermarkets, hypermarkets, pharmacies, food processing factories and wineries, publishing houses, etc., and was an early German large-scale food retailer and wholesaler using fingerprint payment methods

Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, EDEKA is Germany's largest food retailer and wholesaler, with more than 12,600 retail outlets, operating supermarkets, hypermarkets, discount stores, pharmacies, food processing factories and wineries, publishing houses, etc., and its core business is a comprehensive supermarket business, operated by its own retailers. Edeka Zentrale is Germany's largest food retailer, and the opening of a new supermarket chain is not new, but the opening of this store has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life, because of the introduction of a "fingerprint payment" method in this supermarket. In other words, customers who enter the store only need to press their finger on the fingerprint scanner when they make a payment. As the first supermarket to adopt "fingerprint payment", Edka became a pioneer in the reform of payment methods in supermarkets in Germany.