Automated checkouts coming soon to US Amazon supermarkets
Amazon has created a grab-and-go system that can handle scores of shoppers at once and cover large supermarkets without being prohibitively expensive to build and operate
Amazon.com is poised to bring its automated checkout technology to full-size supermarkets, a significant milestone in the race to revolutionise how people buy their groceries.
Planning documents for a store under construction in Connecticut, US contain all the hallmarks of an Amazon Fresh grocery store: a two-word logo on dark grey panels above the store’s entrance, online order pickup counter and such full-service departments as a butcher. The plans also identify a dozen entry and exit gates as well as ceiling-mounted racks to run wiring to camera arrays— a set-up that until now has only appeared in Amazon Go convenience stores...
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