Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
2nd April 2024
Saw that comin’.
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.
Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.
Wonder how many of them used the Just Don’t Pay program?
Wonder how many of those were Fashionable Victim Minorities?
Inquiring minds want to know….