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from the amazon-knows-your-spouse-better-than-you-do dept.
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.
Also at CNBC, Bloomberg, and The Verge:
It'll feel like shoplifting, except you're actually being watched by more cameras than you can imagine.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Unixnut on Tuesday December 06 2016, @04:09PM
>Whichever planet you live on, I wish I were there.
Eastern Europe, too disorganised and corrupt to implement such a system. Also too poor to push so much money into such a system, and quite frankly they don't care enough about what you do to bother.
Africa is pretty good too, too chaotic to implement such a system. Half the time they don't even know how many people live in the country. Russia is too big to implement such a system everywhere (you can spend your entire life on a road trip, and not see every part of the country).
The former Communist states generally have populations that are highly distrusting of government, spying and mainstream media, as such you should get a few generations of resistance to such new applications of technology. "Western" countries have populaces that never experienced Fascist/Communist police states, so have no idea what they are sleep walking into.
Sure, you lose some comforts and luxuries, and experience different languages, cultures, morals and opinions that you may be used to, but there are places out there that, if it is that important to you to make an effort.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:24PM
Quite a few European countries spend time teaching their children about that time when someone decided to unite the place under him.
Databases and permanent tracking are not as popular, but they're correcting that issue courtesy of a few convenient terrorist plots, and of course the app-of-the-day.
On the other hand, I still can't stand watching US elementary kids taking that stupid pledge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:37AM
At least they stopped giving the Bellamy salute [wikipedia.org].