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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (34 children)

What is preventing someone from just walking into a random store with no Amazon account and walking out with stuff?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (31 children)

What is preventing someone from doing that at Walmart?…

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Not much. Employees don't give a fuck and if they did, they would probably get fired for trying to stop a thief.

Actually, many places where I live are scaling back self-checkout. I suspect it's because the geniuses who tried to save a buck by getting rid of tellers didn't realize they would lose more from theft. (It's amazing how many people don't give two fucks about shareholder profits, actually.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that was my point. :P

A thief is a thief, someone willing to steal from a store covered from top to bottom in cameras and sensors is going to be willing to steal from just about anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But there are people at Walmart working. No one is in the Amazon Fresh store?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No one at Walmart is stopping you if you try to just walk out with product. No one is getting paid enough to risk getting sued, and there’s a non-zero chance they get fired if they do more than passively trying to stop you.

In reality, they are going to note down your info, pull up the camera feeds, and call the cops. The exact same steps a Fresh store would take.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Missed opportunities then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

(It’s amazing how many people don’t give two fucks about shareholder profits, actually.)

Heathens and sinners!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, shareholders aren't people so we shouldn't really care about them at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

You're right, they're not people, they're fucking parasites.

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