The “Fight for $15” is in for a big surprise; Amazon’s cashierless stores are on the cusp of going prime-time in the now-inevitable future of automation.
Aptly titled “Amazon Go,” the store will accurately charge shoppers for items removed from shelves and is being marketed as a grocery store without lines and checkouts.
“It uses cameras and shelf sensors to track what shoppers pull from shelves and then charges them for what’s in their carts when they leave the store, all without the use of cashier’s or physical registers,” reports Business Insider.
The technology is apparently so high-tech that Amazon employees tried wearing Pikachu costumes to try and fool the system yet it failed. The only problem not yet fixed is the tech’s inability to charge large groups of shoppers such as families. Bloomberg reports that “engineers have been studying families shopping together and are tweaking their sensors to recognize when a child eats an item while wandering around the store. Engineers are also figuring out which person to charge when a couple goes shopping together.
COMING SOON: AMAZON CASHIERLESS STORES
Aptly titled “Amazon Go,” the store will accurately charge shoppers for items removed from shelves and is being marketed as a grocery store without lines and checkouts.
“It uses cameras and shelf sensors to track what shoppers pull from shelves and then charges them for what’s in their carts when they leave the store, all without the use of cashier’s or physical registers,” reports Business Insider.
The technology is apparently so high-tech that Amazon employees tried wearing Pikachu costumes to try and fool the system yet it failed. The only problem not yet fixed is the tech’s inability to charge large groups of shoppers such as families. Bloomberg reports that “engineers have been studying families shopping together and are tweaking their sensors to recognize when a child eats an item while wandering around the store. Engineers are also figuring out which person to charge when a couple goes shopping together.
COMING SOON: AMAZON CASHIERLESS STORES
