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> But they have taken it a step further, there aren’t even any gates... scan it with the app I consider that strictly inferior, not "one step forward." The gen
by morgante 9y ago
> But they have taken it a step further, there aren’t even any gates... scan it with the app
I consider that strictly inferior, not "one step forward." The genius of Amazon Go is that no scanning is involved. You just take things off the shelf and they're automatically charged to you as you walk out.
- janekm 9y agoThat’s true, though one advantage for the consumer is that at least you get a chance to confirm that you really did want to take that $40 lobster ;) For the store an advantage is saving space, the Chinese ones are in really expensive prime real estate areas.
- aioprisan 9y agoYou get to confirm it before checking out, there's an app listing items added to the shopping cart.