The store of my dreams opened this week. It’s cashless and cashierless and it’s called Amazon Go. The disrupter-in-chief, after more than a year of testing with its own employees and in an effort to change the way people shop in stores, has created a shopping experience like no other. Grab your popcorn — I’ll explain how it works. To enter the store, you have to download the Amazon Go smartphone app and then scan a QR code to open a glass turnstile (there are four in total). Once inside the 176m² convenience store, you shop as you normally would. What’s on offer, you ask? The basics, mostly: milk, sandwiches, toilet paper, chocolate ... You won’t find any baskets though — products go straight into a shopping bag or your pocket. If you pick something up but then put it back, the store knows, and it removes the item from your virtual shopping basket.With no cash registers (or cashiers) on your way out, you leave the store through the same gilded gates you entered by. I would imagine i...
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