Amazon May Open Up To Six More Automated Stores This Year (engadget.com)

Amazon may have opened its automated convenience store a year late, but it looks like it's been a pretty big success. From a report: Recode learned that the company plans on opening six more of its Amazon Go stores in 2018. It's not clear where these stores will be located, though Recode reports that more locations are likely in Seattle, and Amazon is in talks with the developer of The Grove in Los Angeles. Amazon Go is billed as the convenience store of the future. There are no checkout lines; you can simply walk in, grab what you want, and leave. You scan in with a smartphone app, and then an AI tracks what you take from the shelves and automatically charges you for them.

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more expensive garbage for the rich.

[nimbius]

It's not clear where these stores will be located

Hint: You wont find them in Inglewood. These stores will show up some place with a lot of upper middle class white people who dont mind paying more to avoid the usual drolls of a convenience store. homeless beggars arent slumped against the side of the building, and there isnt a stench of fetid trash from the parking lot.

convenience store of the future

Ive been to a go store. theres about a 30-40% markup from what you might find at a CVS or 7 eleven. they dont take cash , they dont sell fresh fruit, and everything is armoured in plastic wrap and polystyrene to ensure it gets a good barcode or nfc sensor. Its the future, if the future came with a "no poor people" label. Security stands at the ready by the door and many items are out of stock.
Go is a branded lifestyle experience, not a convenience store.

Re:Seems like a good idea, better loss figures

[110010001000]

Maybe they could invent something like a sticker to put on the product that used radio frequencies to communicate with a system to track stuff. With AI.

Re:Seems like a good idea, better loss figures

[DogDude]

- people who pee on the floor
- people who open packages and use the product right there in the store
- kids grabbing things off the shelves

There are about a bajillion things that could happen in a store that none of this silliness has accounted for. We are decades away from having employee-less retail stores. This is just a dumb PR stunt to keep the dumb Amazon customers drooling.

Re:They handle that

[SuperKendall]

Yes AND leave the store without having to interact with a cashier or use a badly designed self-checkout station that takes two minutes to properly classify the bananas you bought.

Such a shame small-minded people like yourself cannot imagine even the simplest of improvements this will bring, you can practically see the vibrations from the gears in your head attempting to turn but failing.