Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
gizmodo.com
Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

(via https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/112202942593125987, archive: https://archive.is/VnqRZ)

surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive

even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down

  • Hello_there
    31•7 months ago

    Lol. This is some.wizard in oz don’t look behind the curtain level of shenanigans. I remember the news articles when it released all said it was automation.

    • @[email protected]English
      16•7 months ago

      Pretty much every startup operates like that, they hope to figure out the AI stuff later on and basically never do.

    • @NotMyOldRedditNameEnglish
      4•7 months ago

      I was so excited to try one out when I was in San Francisco, but now that’s it feels lame :(