Amazon ditches 'Just Walk Out' checkouts at its grocery stores
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Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
You apparently can't check out any time you want
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped." <-- corporate "brilliance" at its worst
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Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
You apparently can't check out any time you want
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped." <-- corporate "brilliance" at its worst
What the absolute flying fracklebunnies!? Here I was thinking it was fully automated, clever AI, image recognition, etc. But no, it was Indian people watching every single item that every single customer picked up! That is utterly, utterly barking mad. If they were supposed to be training AI then it would seem that it didn't learn. And they are keeping 'Just Walk Out' in some locations. So do they still have some Indian guys watching those ones?
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Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
You apparently can't check out any time you want
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped." <-- corporate "brilliance" at its worst
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Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
You apparently can't check out any time you want
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped." <-- corporate "brilliance" at its worst
And the CEO will get a bonus worth more than all of those Indians were paid in a year 🤬...
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Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
You apparently can't check out any time you want
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped." <-- corporate "brilliance" at its worst
Kroger/Smith's tried their new idea--check out as you go--and dropped it. Almost nobody used it (aside from us nerds.)
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Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
You apparently can't check out any time you want
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped." <-- corporate "brilliance" at its worst
The girls at Dollar General told me they are ditching self checkouts. It may not be chain-wide but more regional, like locking up deodorant or whatever. These stores around here don't tend to do the stupid locking stuff up because people don't tend to steal. But that stereotype was challenged by self-checkouts. This is "interesting"... because why? They didn't steal before (evidenced by the typical stuff not being locked up). Do self-checkouts make people so angry they forsake a bit of morality in acts of retail theft vengeance? Did "just walk out" make people who'd otherwise not steal want to find ways to "get away with it"?