Posted on 12/06/2016 8:56:13 AM PST by jcon40
There’s a term used to describe people who walk into a store, help themselves to a sandwich or a cupcake, and then promptly walk out: Shoplifters. But maybe not for much longer. Amazon just lifted the lid on its new Amazon Go technology, which looks to fundamentally transform the retail world.
Here’s how it works. You enter a store using Amazon’s propriety technology and flash your personal QR code to a reader. Then, you just pick up what you want and walk out. No dealing with infuriating self-checkout machines or cashiers. The money is automatically taken from a nominated credit or debit card. It’s the ultimate in grab-and-go retail convenience.
Amazon Go is powered by a combination of computer vision, sensors and machine learning, packaged up into something the company calls “Just Walk Out technology.”
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3.1 million cashiers are not going to like this.
Retail Loss Prevention guys are gonna LOVE this...NOT!
Inb4systemhackedaccountempty.
Sounds like it basically works like a tollbooth.
Will this work for inner-city flash mob “shoppers”?
The only problem is can somebody basically shield an item from the reader, so it doesn’t pick up the purchase.
Not unless they have a credit card.
Security/law enforcement workers are gonna love it. Lots of jobs to catch people coming out of stores without credit/debit cards. Or maybe exits will be fitted with the jaws of death.
Yeah great, this way the produce folks can ensure you get the rotten stuff first!
No more looking for the latest expiration date on milk jugs?
Surprise! You get the dinged can!
Here’s your steak, with the one inch strip of fat down the center!
An automated tollbooth with no toll takers...............
Made me think of picking up lumber sunday. Some boards are unusable.
You still get to select the product you want off the shelves.
You gotta credit Amazon with thinking outside the box.
And more people will “self register” into massive databases. Along with the genealogy hunters, the DNA testers (does “where do I come from?” really matter THAT much?), the coupon and store app users with fine location, and anyone using a “cloud” (ptui) anything.
Anyone who found the chips of “Demolition Man,” or the retina readers of “Minority Report” disconcerting, surely would not use any of these self-registering processes...
tinfoil rant completed.....
KYPD
I've read where the biggest losses are from the employees themselves.
I've not witnessed it, but my wife has, where a cashier's friend/family will come through the line, and a very expensive item gets bagged, but not scanned. My wife reported it to management.
Ghostery, a tracking blocker, has blocked up to FORTY different companies trying to track me.
Lightfingered Louie won’t need this app. He’ll just carry on as before.
Yet, here we are, ten years and a new generation later, and negative public perception is changing. Won't be long now. Accept the mark, er, the chip, or you WON'T be able to work, buy food, etc.
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