No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store

In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, reusable shopping bags are displayed inside an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Following the opening of several smaller convenience-type stores using an app and cashier-less technology to tally shoppers' selections, the store will be the first Amazon Go full-sized cashier-less grocery store.

Called Amazon Go Grocery, the new store is an expansion of its 2-year-old chain of 25 Amazon Go convenience stores. It's 10,400 square feet — more than five times the size of the convenience stores — and stocks much more beyond the sodas and sandwiches found at Amazon Go. Amazon also plans to open another type of grocery store in Los Angeles sometime this year, but the company said it won't use the cashier-less technology at that location and has kept other details under wraps. The company declined to say if it plans to open more Amazon Go Grocery stores, and said there are no plans to bring the technology to Whole Foods stores.

Hoping to catch up to Amazon, other retailers and startups are racing to bring similar cashier-less technology to stores. Earlier this month, 7-Eleven said it is testing a cashier-less store for employees inside its offices in Irving, Texas. While cashier-less stores remove the annoyance of waiting in line to pay, it also kills some joys of the supermarket. There's no one to bag groceries. Instead, Amazon gives out reusable bags so shoppers can fill them as they shop. And there’s no deli counter, butcher or fishmonger. Instead, sliced ham, steaks and salmon fillets are already packaged and found in refrigerated shelves.

Moments like this need to make people realize actual workers like cashiers have purpose and value. Companies make plenty of profit without cutting out what is necessary for the public, real people and jobs. COVIDー19 should spotlight why automation is not the way!

Way to go BernieSanders and DNC : Constant threats of a mandated minimum salary have resonated so that now companies are simply eliminating all jobs under $15 per hour. IMO: cashiers, baggers, and fast food are not meant to be careers, and they are all being replaced by kiosks

Do not shop there!

Hooray, fewer jobs from Amazon, because technology is so reliable 🤦🏻‍♀️

“Don’t help anyone out or you’ll be charged”

This may seem cool but it's not. They are removing the human out of the process of customer service.

These Amazon Go Grocery stores are another way not to have to pay many employees. It's a win win situation for Amazon. Something that has made Bezos the billions he has.

frontlinepbs just did an excellent episode about Amazon. It's about as evil as corporations get.

I prefer humans

May be 'neat'. It cuts jobs. We don't need that.

Cool so they’re going to pay a tax on every human job eliminated by a robot?

Translation: Amazon is implementing its new profit model based on eliminating the expense of employees.

Customers wandering around the store tryna find stuff with no help in sight huh, sounds familiar to me ahhh sounds like a Walmart store lol...

Interesting read 👌

Yes and to increase the unemployment rate! 👍

We went to the one in NYC, at Rockefeller Center.. pretty neat.

Lol he is a perfect example of Bernie hiking up the medium wage!!! No more work for the bottom feeders

Open up in Spain.

This is interesting, but is it cutting jobs? Is it going to be quicker? More convenient?

I'm glad Amazon did this. I was getting worried they had strayed from their mission statement of putting every other company out of business.

That's silly that's taking jobs away from real people..

who’s going to bag my groceries now 😰

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Amazon to open its first full-size, cashierless grocery storeShoppers can walk in, scan a QR code from their Amazon mobile app at a turnstile, carry or add whatever they want to their baskets — and walk out. Where can you find this grocery store?🏡🏡💰💰💲💲🎺🎺🎷🎷✈️✈️🐎🐎🎼🎼💵💵🤩🤩❤️❤️🥰🥰🤠🤠🎸🎸📱📱😄😄 I won't be going. They're not paying me to check out and bag my own groceries, so screw 'em. billburr I don’t think these Amazon people watched “Let it Go”
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