Amazon is ready to open its first Amazon Go bricks-and-mortar store in Seattle with a technology that permits shoppers to just take what they want and walk out without paying. Or something like that. The cost will show up on your account but there will be no checkout. The video below released today tells the more detailed story and as of Monday evening has been viewed by well over half a million people. The most critical element in Amazon’s cocktail of software seems to be “computer vision”. It is a no brainer that the store will know you are in the place when it scans your card. But it then has to see you as you snatch stuff off the shelf. It has to see you. Not the guy beside you. Time will tell but Consumerist says today that there is rumbling that Amazon is so tickled with this system that it is dreaming of getting into the corner store business, or something. It seems any number of big operators could replicate the concept. . .
