Amazon launching its own supermarket and promises 'no queues or checkouts'
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- 22 Jan 2021
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Amazon is opening its first grocery store on Monday with the promise of "no lines, no checkouts, no registers”.
Competitors are eagerly watching how the new supermarket performs with others expected to follow suit if it is a success.
The 1,800 square foot ‘ Amazon Go’ store is located in the middle of the company’s Seattle headquarters.
Using what bosses call ”Just Walk Out" technology, shoppers merely scan their mobile app as they walk in, pick up whatever they want, and walk out.
Amazon's technology detects everything customers take or return to the shelves before keeping track of what is being bought in a virtual shopping cart.
When customers leave, they receive a receipt while the charges are automatically debited from their accounts.
The store will be tested in Seattle, but if successful it will be rolled out across the States and abroad.
An expansion of Amazon's grocery technology could have enormous implications for job markets.
In the States alone, more than 3.5 million people held cashier jobs as of May 2016.
Nearly 900,000 of those were in grocery stores.
