Amazon is testing a brick-and-mortar concept store that would allow shoppers to pick items off the shelf and leave without waiting in a line:
Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it has opened a brick-and-mortar grocery store in Seattle without lines or checkout counters, kicking off new competition with supermarket chains.
Amazon Go, the online shopping giant's new 1,800-square-foot (167-square-meter) store, uses sensors to detect what shoppers have picked off the shelf and bills it to their Amazon account if they do not put it back.
The store marks Amazon's latest push into groceries, one of the biggest retail categories it has yet to master. The company currently delivers produce and groceries to homes through its AmazonFresh service.
"It's a great recognition that their e-commerce model doesn't work for every product," said analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research, noting that physical stores would complement AmazonFresh. "If there were hundreds of these stores around the country, it would be a huge threat" to supermarket chains, he said.
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It'll feel like shoplifting, except you're actually being watched by more cameras than you can imagine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:43PM
Outer Limits did episodes about the head chip ("Stream of Consciousness") and the hand chip ("Zig Zag"). Too bad millennials interpret dystopian fiction as instruction manuals.
(Score: 2) by rondon on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:23PM
What the actual fuck?! What millennial do you know who has the power to implement this dystopian crap? Jesus Christ you freakin AC's are blind, deaf, dumb, and stupid today.
Please, completely ignore that our current surveillance and police state was implemented by 70 year old white men for the last however-many years and blame this all on millennials.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:42PM
Fuckerberg
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:53PM
Stop generalizing.
How many ACs do you know?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:09PM
Just one, but he is a complete piece of trash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:06PM
Haha, I'll bet that millennials burned the Library at Alexandria because it didn't have a safe space!
(I'd also bet that it's a millennial who's posting about how this or that is all the fault of millennials.)