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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday February 26 2018, @01:29AM
Actually, paying by "hoodie and sunglasses"* is definitely the most convenient.
*Don't bring a smartphone, rather just wear a hoodie and sunglasses (gloves might not be a bad idea too). Walk in behind someone else, help yourself to whatever you want and walk out. Since that's what everyone else is doing anyway, it won't even look strange. Now that's what I call convenience!
I assume there's some sort of proximity thing determining which smart phone to charge which products. I'm sure that once young, single men are being charged for tampons and other amusing things, hilarity will ensue.
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