Posted on 06/20/2017 9:11:56 AM PDT by rktman
The move is part of Amazon’s strategy for Whole Foods to sell to middle and lower income consumers, the report alleged.
Amazon may be seeking to make the high-end grocer more competitive with Walmart and other mass-market retailers in the US, the New York Post reports.
An Amazon spokesman denied that job cuts are in the works for Whole Foods.
Technology will replace the cashier jobs at Whole Foods, using sensor technology that’s being pioneered at the experimental Amazon Go store concept in Seattle, according to the report.
In February, a source told The New York Post that “Amazon will utilise technology to minimise labour” at new, machine-automated supermarkets that could operate with as few as three employees.
At Whole Foods, technology would enable people to pay using their smartphone, instead of seeing a cashier, or even using a kiosk, a source told Bloomberg.
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Only if someone can invent a robot with pierced tongue, too many tats and purple hair.
Technology has no bounds...
Whole Paycheck was destined to fail.
I hope Bezos fails too.
Too bad that the interest alone on his wealth could sustain him for millions of years.
If the Washington Post hit pieces keep coming look for Trump to launch a DOJ hit to take them out amazon as a monopoly. May not work but it would send a message and cost Bezo’s and Amazon a chunk of change.
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