Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    And I am calling Amazon’s “just walk out” service also a con because it was touted as automatic, even if also being mostly human labour.

    That’s not what a con is. A con is a deliberate scam. Amazon’s automated checkout simply didn’t function as effectively as intended. They presumably lost money on the venture because the automation was unreliable. Nothing about this situation was a deliberate attempt to pay over 1,000 employees to check an automated system’s work.

    The Mechanical Turk is an interesting story and I’m glad you linked it, but it’s not all that similar.