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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.
Sometimes I need good food badly enough that a $5 yogurt that would be $1 elsewhere starts to look acceptable.
Not like it's going to be cheaper anywhere else in the airport.
And if you don't have a water bottle? Any amount is fine thanks because you really don't want to roll the dice getting on a plane these days without your own personal supply of water in case you are stuck on the tarmac for several hours.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Right, I must be fat because I want yogurt instead of chips or some greasy fast food?????? Ahh, AC's of Slashdot - never change.
P.S. The fact you are "hearing" my posts suggest you should seek medical attention. Those voices ain't mine buddy.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If anyone else targets an airport it is an act of terrorism, but with Amazon it is a strategic business decision. It is probably a good thing the Amazon rep. and the $10K/hour consultant they hired to come up with this idea were not discussing it at the actual airport. The TSA would have declared it an emergency situation, locked down the airport, every school in a 30 mile radius, and cancelled every flight in the continental US.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?