Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, with no checkout lines and no cashiers

recode ^ | 1-22-18 | Jason Del Ray

[ak267]

Amazon Go allows customers to grab items and just walk out without stopping to pay. ===============================================

Amazon’s store of the future has been five years in the making. But the unveiling is just about here.

Amazon Go, the company’s first brick-and-mortar convenience store, will open to the public on Monday on the ground floor of Amazon’s new headquarters on Seventh Avenue in Seattle. Though the unveiling will take place about a year later than the company originally planned, it will still be met with great intrigue because of the store’s unique technology that Amazon believes can make checkout lines a thing of the past.

[Obadiah]

Yeah, I don't see these going into the "underserved communities" anytime soon. Those waist-high glass barriers don't seem designed for *ahem* urban settings.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Too funny. When Lootie’s family members catch wind, look for world’s fastest store emptying event.

Hope it’s near a bus stop.

[RitchieAprile]

if a location is deemed to be at such risk its likely that
there won’t be a corporate-franchisee it will be a mom-pop.

in Bell Square there is low likelihood of flash mobs unless they are Chinese tigermoms or Indian haqeurs..

[fella]

The ObamaPhone crowd worked that taking stuff without paying years ago.

[Vaduz]

Indeed it’s why in they have riots near Christmas time.