Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

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.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    What is preventing someone from just walking into a random store with no Amazon account and walking out with stuff?

      • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Not much. Employees don’t give a fuck and if they did, they would probably get fired for trying to stop a thief.

        Actually, many places where I live are scaling back self-checkout. I suspect it’s because the geniuses who tried to save a buck by getting rid of tellers didn’t realize they would lose more from theft. (It’s amazing how many people don’t give two fucks about shareholder profits, actually.)