We've all heard the concerns of automation eliminating many different types of jobs in the future. It looks like some of that future will be enacted early 2017 in Seattle, Washington when Amazon plans to launch it's first grocery store called Amazon Go that features not checkout lines and no cashiers. These stores will have technology in place to identify who you are by having the Amazon Go app installed on your phone and scanning a QR when you first come inside.
While shopping, these stores will actually be able to detect what you actually take off the shelf and put into your basket or cart. It will even be able to detect when you put an item back that you decided not to buy.
Once you have all your items together, rather than going through the standard checkout lines, you just walk out of the store and you will be charged using whatever payment method you have set up with Amazon and send the receipt to you phone.
The full news story can be read at Business Insider.
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