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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:43PM (3 children)
That thought has crossed the mind of anyone who has ever eaten out of a trash can. "Criminal mind" my ass. If I scare you that much, you can always leave the site and pretend the big scary mean lady doesn't exist :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:16PM (2 children)
This is a classic case of projection. You have thoughts that urge you to commit acts beyond those of mere survival and well past the line into criminal behavior and then assume that everyone else entertains those same thoughts. We do not.
You are not scary, as your publicly-proclaimed criminal preferences are not a problem that a can of pepper spray, a pistol, and/or a shotgun cannot be deployed to deter or deny.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:39PM (1 child)
Yeah? My dick is still bigger than yours and it's a clitoris. Come get me, Mr. Internet Tough Guy.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:48PM
I wonder what a tangled mess of neural cobwebs allows you to unironically first deny the criminality of robbery (notably outside the bounds of survival) and in the next breath present yourself as a hunted victim when a person who may be someone you publicly designated as a fair-game robbery target denotes a short list of practical tools to deter or deny your criminal behavior preferences.
Then there's the obvious penis envy.