There are no more classic stores
By Mrki Krki
@mrki444 (15162)
Croatia (Hrvatska)
January 23, 2018 2:51pm CST
Amazon has just opened the first fully automated non-worker trade.
The buyer comes in, takes the goods and gets charged automatically when leaving the store.
There are no queues, cash, cash registers ... What this really means for future workers in the catering industry? Will all the stores that sell the finished products go over to a similar system?
Image source: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/5/13842592/amazon-go-new-cashier-less-convenience-store
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
23 Jan 18
Technology and Amazon again at the forefront of destroying jobs.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
9 Oct 18
There is no way in our lifetime that stores will revert to this method. I would be surprised if anyone other than Amazon even tried it out
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
9 Oct 18
@mrki444 yes but that doesn't have everything in it and I wouldn't say it's the same at all.
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@mrki444 (15162)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
9 Oct 18
@MarshaMusselman But we already have similar things on smaller scale - vending machine.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
9 Oct 18
I doubt many places would follow suit. It would take years and years to recoup the losses of putting such a system in, I would think. Even though it's not cheap for the business owners in the states to have employees. Still...
I'm not familiar with how much out of pocket expenses other countries put out when they have enployees.
I would be surprised if any/many other stores of any type were to follow suit.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
29 May 18
scary use of full automation - oh, if you take the first s out of the youtube address it will load it properly
@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
26 Feb 18
The potential to scan one item and take another in it's place bothers me. A better idea is to have the customer order items in advance, pay for them online, first, then go to the store at the time the order is ready. That way the customer can pick up their order or orders, and it still requires people doing order pulling and verifying that the customer who comes to pick stuff up is the same person who paid for it online. Joe Blow might come by and tell them "I ordered this stuff, but in fact he or she might have known about said purchase and get it for themselves without the buyer knowing it.
This would require identification and a person at a counter to visually confirm that the customer coming in to pick their stuff up is the same John doe who ordered it and paid for it. It's all about honesty. In a perfect world this would work but the world is far from perfect!
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
28 Jan 18
Tell me how this is possible to'get charges automatically when leaving the store'? WHAT is charged? Credit card?
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