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Amazon Targets Airports For Checkout-Free Store Expansion (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Amazon is looking at bringing its futuristic checkout-free store format to airports in an effort to win business from hungry, time-pressed travelers, according to public records and a person familiar with the strategy. For months, the world's largest online retailer has been expanding Amazon Go, where customers scan their smartphones at a turnstile to enter, and then cameras identify what they take from the shelves. When shoppers are finished, they simply leave the store and Amazon bills their credit cards on file. Amazon is evaluating top U.S. airports for new locations, according to public records requests to several airport operators.
Scan your Amazon code, get in, grab water bottle and snack and you are out.
Though mostly I refill water bottles these days at airports with filling stations, sometimes I forget a bottle or the water at the airport it a bit too odd, then it usually takes a while for everyone in line to get through so I can just buy something simple.
Or just to get a yogurt or banana with no delay would be fantastic.
Amazon may be a giant soul-crushing monolith, but by gum are they becoming an indispensable soul-crushing monolith!
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You sound like you're from the United States in America under Trump, and very bitter. Why don't you move to a civilized country?