Amazon is giving us what may be a peek at the future of retail. And no, we don’t mean barking at your Amazon Echo to re-order those carmel-apple oreos that you just ran out of. We mean the future of physically going shopping, where you go to a store to an actual store and actually buy things in real life.
Well that’s the idea behind the Go retail concept by Amazon, which looks to be a regular grocery store with a very high tech twist. There are no cashiers, and no checkout lines. When you go into the Go store, you activate the Amazon Go shopping app, pick out your stuff, and then head for the exit. Amazon says they are using a combination of sensors, A.I. deep learning and even some tech lifted from autonomous cars to keep track of what you buy while in the store.
Done shopping? Amazon will total up your purchases, charge your account and email your receipt for easy tracking, all before you even get to your self-driving car. Amazon says the first Go store opens in Seattle next year, and if things go well, expect at least 2,000 more Go stores to pop up in the very near future.
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