Amazon’s first checkout-free grocery store opens Monday in Seattle

The receipt, which showed up in the Amazon Go app in our phone a few minutes later, accurately reflected the 11 oz.

An Amazon.com Inc. employee scans in to shop at the Amazon Go store in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. The reports further claims that when a customer enters the shop he/she is greeted by a selection of salads, sandwiches and beverages along with ready to eat meals for breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

There is no waiting in line for check out at Amazon Go, as the store is called – instead, its computerized system charges customers’ Amazon account as they exit the store.

One of the few functions that human personnel performs inside the store is preparing meals for consumption inside the store.

Cameras that monitor everything from above and weight sensors placed on the shelves determine precisely what people pick up. Then a mix of cameras, sensors and artifical intelligence keeps track of what they take off the shelves. It’s all done via a combination of hardware and software meant to prevent lines from forming, and ensure a customer experience that no other retail store can offer.

“Amazon, famous for dynamic pricing online, has printed price tags just as traditional brick-and-mortar stores do”, Reuters added – probably because in-store dynamic or personalised pricing could run into a legal grey area. When they leave, their shopping is automatically billed to their account. If you change your mind and put the item back it will be removed.

Oh, and you’ll need the app in order to get past the subway-style barriers and begin shopping. Amazon also has small shops in several malls.

Our roughly 1,800 square feet of retail space is conveniently compact so busy customers can get in and out fast. It has opened more than a dozen bookstores, taken over space in some Kohl’s department stores and bought Whole Foods previous year, giving it 470 grocery stores.

Presumably, if successful, and I see no reason why it wouldn’t be assuming the technology works, we will likely see many more of these stores to come in the future. Today, the company announced the first Amazon Go convenience store will open on January 22 in Seattle. The e-commerce giant had expected the store to be open to the public much sooner. Puerini added: “This technology didn’t exist [until then] – it was really advancing the state of the art of computer vision and machine learning”.