Amazon's Checkout-Free Stores Are Coming to Three More Cities (reuters.com)

Reuters reports: Amazon said on Friday it plans to open its checkout-free 'Amazon Go' grocery store in New York, expanding beyond Seattle where it is headquartered. The Amazon Go store, which has no cashiers and allows shoppers to buy things with the help of a smartphone app, is widely seen as a concept that can alter brick-and-mortar retail... Customers have to scan a smartphone app to enter the store. Once inside, cameras and sensors track what they pick up from the shelves and what they put back. Amazon then bills shoppers' credit cards on file after they leave.
CNET adds: The expansion comes after two Amazon Go stores opened in Seattle. The first one debuted in January 2018 and the second opened last month... Amazon confirmed in May that it'll open Amazon Go stores in San Francisco and Chicago, but it didn't say when.

Comments

I don't have an "app"

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't even have a smartphone, nor do I want one. Just like those "no cash, only card" shops here, I just won't shop there. Because I pay cash, and cash only.

Re:Don't buy at Amazon

[Anonymous Coward]

> Top athletes and entertainers also make insane amounts. And somehow weâ(TM)re all ok with that.

I'm OK with someone making money. But not at the cost of others who barely earn their lives. Or, as is the case with Amazon, who depend on state help *on top* of having to work full-time. That's when it becomes obscene.

I, for one aren't (and won't be, ever) their customer.

Re: Don't buy at Amazon

[drinkypoo]

I cannot see how low wages holds technology back.

As long as it's cheaper to hire a human than to develop technology to automate their job, the job doesn't get automated. Thus, useful progress is retarded by making it legal to pay starvation wages.