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.

  • Eager EagleEnglish
    83•9 months ago

    idk…

    According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales. Amazon called this characterization inaccurate, and disputes how many purchases require reviews.

    if Amazon wasn’t the source of this number, where is it coming from?

    • @schmidtsterEnglish
      20•9 months ago

      Amazon was using people to train the model, so at the starts it would be 100%, but eventually the goal would be to get near zero, maybe the average was 70% but when the ended it was near 40%?

    • @errerEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      If the numbers don’t match your narrative, just make them up! That’s the Gizmodo way.

      • @pdxfedEnglish
        31•9 months ago

        Or Amazon, if you don’t like your employees having labor rights, just sue to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional with such awesome groups as Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•9 months ago

      Probably the ‘1000 people in india’ reviewing that footage.

      The rest of the articles linked in the above one are pay walled and I don’t care enough to dig further.