Above: Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. Customers can just walk out with no checkout or line. Sensors automatically detect purchases. Seattle, Washington, November 27, 2017. The illusion of job safety for the 3.5 million cashiers in America was shattered last week when Amazon Go, the first cashierless grocery store in the United States, opened in Seattle . By most accounts, the store is highly functional: It is difficult to shoplift, and the technology — which Amazon described only as involving “sophisticated computer vision and machine learning software” — accurately identifies which items […]
Full Post at venturebeat.com