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Amazon's much-heralded convenience store of the future, Amazon Go, may seem like a crazy experiment. But the company plans to open as many as six more of these storefronts this year, multiple people familiar with the company's plans have told Recode.
Some of the new high-tech stores are likely to open in Amazon's hometown of Seattle, where the first location is based, as well as Los Angeles, these people said. It's not clear if Amazon will open up Go stores in any other cities this year.
In Los Angeles, Amazon has held serious talks with billionaire developer Rick Caruso about bringing a Go store to The Grove, his 600,000-square-foot outdoor shopping Mecca, two of these people said.
And in Seattle, Amazon had identified at least three locations for additional Go stores as of last year, according to one source.
[...] News of the planned expansion of the Amazon Go concept is sure to set off fresh concerns about the great societal challenges that come with the type of automation that Amazon is inventing. Since the Amazon Go model does not involve customers checking out, there are no cashiers working in the stores.
Source: ReCode
Also Amazon reportedly plans to open more of its futuristic, cashierless stores this year
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 25 2018, @11:05PM (3 children)
Another thing associated with convenience is booze and smokes. After California started implementing self-checkouts California lawmakers outlawed buying alcohol from self-checkouts -- and that still to this day has me pissed, just another instance of overreaching nannystate-ism.
Anyway, the Amazon Go stores in California will be all gimmick unless sales of booze and smokes, or at the very least one of those two, are allowed. As I stated before, those stores will be only in White neighborhoods and, unlike Blacks, Whites do their grocery shopping elsewhere. Whites go to convenience stores only go get beer and bags of ice for the beer coolers, replenish their supplies of emergency hot sauce, maybe a roll of paper towels or some asswipe. Whites don't drink convenience-store coffee or eat convenience-store hot food*.
* But Goddamn, when you have the munchies and everywhere else is closed, nothing beats a fat Big-Bite hot-dog drenched with nacho "cheese" product.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @11:14PM (1 child)
Your cashier job is safe! Continue selling booze to pregnant women and selling smokes to children.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday February 26 2018, @12:24AM
Uh -- you know I'm not Chaldean, right? I have moral standards, and at least here cashiers have the right to refuse service to anyone.
People do beer-runs from my store but the shrink is relatively small compared to what I've seen over by San Diego State. For example, one time I was doing some grocery shopping at a Vons near San Diego State, because as you well know Whites don't grocery-shop from convenience stores. Well, after I paid and exited the store, I saw in broad daylight a tall athletic Black kid lift a whole shopping cart full of beer and he was literally whistling and his steps were hopping and skipping as he walked the loot at a snail's pace across the parking lot. It was literally a Warner Bros. cartoon depicting a black beer thief in real-life. What was even more hilarious was the fact that two store employees gave chase, but weren't allowed physical contact, so the Black man continued to whistle to himself and twiddle his thumbs while the two store employees were giving chase but walking, rather than getting a running start and tackling the sonofabitch.
The perpetrator was most likely a student athlete. They bring in millions for the college, so they get free passes to behave like criminals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @03:12AM
Always interesting to hear from the People's Republic of California. In my neck of the woods, booze and cigarettes (and cough syrup, apparently) require the cashier to scan their badge and approve the sale. One cashier handles 6 express lanes or 4 grocery lanes.