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Having visited the Amazon Go stores in Seattle at-least 30 times over the last couple of years, including the newly opened Amazon Go Grocery store, I can confid
by mataug 7y ago
Having visited the Amazon Go stores in Seattle at-least 30 times over the last couple of years, including the newly opened Amazon Go Grocery store, I can confidently say that the technology works quite well for the typical shopper.
I agree, the question of, can this technology be integrated into existing retail spaces and still work well enough to be economically viable is important. But considering that there hasn't been any other retailer who's come up with a competing product over the last two years, tells me that Amazon could be way ahead of the competition on "Just Walk Out", and possibly dominate this space of retail automation for a while.
- asdff 7y agoHow does this technology deal with theft?
- tartoran 7y agoTheft doesn’t happen in an ideal world. They’ll discover the flaws at some point. Id say theft and hacking scheemes could make this unfeasible or a big pain in their rearend
- demosito666 7y agoIt seems to me that this technology may actually deal with theft better than what's there now, because it can retroactively charge the thief once he's caught, and it has more eyes than any amount of human guards at a supermarket can possibly have.