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Amazon Go is a go:
The first clue that there's something unusual about Amazon's store of the future hits you right at the front door. It feels as if you are entering a subway station. A row of gates guard the entrance to the store, known as Amazon Go, allowing in only people with the store's smartphone app.
Inside is an 1,800-square foot mini-market packed with shelves of food that you can find in a lot of other convenience stores — soda, potato chips, ketchup. It also has some food usually found at Whole Foods, the supermarket chain that Amazon owns.
But the technology that is also inside, mostly tucked away out of sight, enables a shopping experience like no other. There are no cashiers or registers anywhere. Shoppers leave the store through those same gates, without pausing to pull out a credit card. Their Amazon account automatically gets charged for what they take out the door.
[...] There were a little over 3.5 million cashiers in the United States in 2016 — and some of their jobs may be in jeopardy if the technology behind Amazon Go eventually spreads. For now, Amazon says its technology simply changes the role of employees — the same way it describes the impact of automation on its warehouse workers.
Also at TechCrunch.
Previously: Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Monday January 22 2018, @08:47PM (2 children)
Then I guess it's time for the working poor to stop voting for the party that pushes policies that hurt the poor.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 22 2018, @09:38PM (1 child)
Agreed, but when neither party really has their interests in mind, and the one that's worse for them is the only one that even pretends to be on their side, what do you expect?
The Democrats owe people like me a 45+-year-long apology. After McGovern lost to that ambulatory shitstain Nixon they gave up on the poor entirely and decided to focus on special interest groups and the highly-educated, cynically believing that the poor would vote for them anyway because "we're not the Republicans."
Theirs was partly a failure of being cynical, and partly a failure of not being cynical ENOUGH about just how dumb a lot of poor folks are. Meanwhile, the GOP, which is cynical to the point it might as well be called sociopathology, decided to court the fear vote, starting from the civil rights act backlash and continuing onward.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday January 22 2018, @10:54PM
We're getting the government we deserve.