Last year, Amazon introduced its first Amazon Go : a brick-and-mortar convenience store that sells snacks, staples like milk and bread, pre-made meals, and meal kits. But unlike a 7-Eleven, there are no cashiers or checkout lanes in the Seattle store. Instead, the entire process is automated: sensors track the items customers take out of the store, and charge them accordingly. Amazon is also working on another convenience-store concept in which customers would order online and pick up groceries from their cars, using license-plate-reading technology, sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to help facilitate faster checkouts. It’s a revolutionary […]
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