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Amazon Plans to Open as Many as Six More Cashierless Amazon Go Stores This Year

posted by janrinok on Sunday February 25 2018, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the got-to-give-it-a-try dept.

Fnord666 writes:

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @08:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @08:35PM (#644163)

    Easier, steal rich person's phone, immediately visit Amazon store, grab everything. No cashiers, so wear a ski mask to hide your face from cameras, don't have to touch anything except the phone and stuff in the cart so no prints except the easily wipeable cart handle.

  • (Score: 2) by arslan on Monday February 26 2018, @10:00PM

    by arslan (3462) on Monday February 26 2018, @10:00PM (#644236)

    Haven't had the pleasure of using Amazon Go yet, since there's none available in my neck of the woods.. but I'd think they would ask for some authentication like finger ID or pin on the app before entering the store?

    Otherwise yea that would be dumb.. this would be an area they'd need to fix. Keep in mind they're field testing this, so there's plenty of room for improvement.

    Btw, just because they can't recognize you in a ski mask, doesn't mean they can't acknowledge a crime in progress and refund/credit the owner for the lost and write it off as BAU or claim insurance, much like a credit card fraud. I'm sure they've had to factor these kind of stuff into their business plan... don't need an MBA for that...