Appy to shop in a cashless supermarket
AMAZON will today open a supermarket with no queues, where shoppers simply walk out after picking up their purchases.
Customers enter using an app on their mobile phone and artificial intelligence technology automatically registers what they take from shelves.
Their Amazon account is debited after they leave.
The 1,800 sq ft Amazon Go store is at the company’s Seattle HQ in the US. It will be open to the public.
Amazon’s Gianna Puerini said there had been four years of testing. “This technology didn’t exist before,” she said. “It advances computer vision and machine learning.”
There are fears that jobs will be hit if such stores take off. There are 900,000 cashiers in US stores.