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Amazon will open two cashier-less Whole Foods stores next year.
And people will just lap it up....
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Sep 15, 2021 - 7:03 AM
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Solium
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Amazon will open two cashier-less Whole Foods stores next year.
And people will just lap it up....
Not quite the same, but:
For the last couple of years, at the Sam's Club where I'm a member, I've been using their app on my phone so that I simply scan my grocery items as I select them, and avoid a checkout line. When I'm done shopping I pay using the app, then I only have to stop at the store exit and let the person there scan the QR code and I'm out.
Self ordering, self check out, self bagging, whats next, self cook your own food at the restaurant?
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Sep 15, 2021 - 10:02 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Not quite the same, but:
For the last couple of years, at the Sam's Club where I'm a member, I've been using their app on my phone so that I simply scan my grocery items as I select them, and avoid a checkout line. When I'm done shopping I pay using the app, then I only have to stop at the store exit and let the person there scan the QR code and I'm out.
One of my local stores has a similar system using hand-held scanners provided by the store. You still have to go through the self-service checkout line at the end of your shopping, where your scanner order is wirelessly transferred to the larger machine and you pay with a credit card. I love scanning my own items while shopping. It makes it easy to make sure you are getting the correct price, since sometimes prices are not adequately shown on the shelf.
As for theft, self-scanned orders are periodically "audited" by having you routed to a manned check-out station where your order is rescanned by an employee. My experience is that this happens about once every 12-15 orders. I don't know what they would do if they found a discrepancy. They never have with me.
I have an Amazon Fresh near me. I've shopped there as one would normally, but I have not signed up for an account in order to use that "smart cart" feature to avoid check-out, and I have no intention to do so. That's a bridge too far for me.
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