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Amazon Opens First Amazon Go In Seattle With No Checkout Counters
Do you hate waiting in checkout lines while the person in front of you breaks out the coupons (half expired) leaving you frustrated and annoyed? Well, Amazon has totally changed the game with Amazon Go, a supermarket with no checkout counters or cashiers!
Amazon has been teasing the cashierless supermarket for months and they’ve finally opened the first one in Seattle.
According to the The New York Times, walking into the store feels like going into a subway station, since you go through turnstiles and scan your Amazon app to get in. And then when you leave the store, you just walk back through the turnstiles, and your Amazon account simply charges you for what you bought.
The technology, called Just Walk Out, works using hundreds of cameras in the store and a brand-new app you have to download to use the store. Once you’re in the store, there are also no shopping baskets or carts, so you have to just put whatever you want in the bag you’re going to walk out with.
As such, this place is more of a quick stop and not a place you’d your family’s monthly shopping in. That is reflected in the selection at the store too, as there is nothing that would vary in weight, like individual pieces of fruit, and there’s a selection of grab-and-go-meals made on site by a kitchen staff.
Unfortunately, since it took Amazon over a year to set up this first store, there may be a bit of a lag before there is an Amazon Go store near you!