‘Just walk out’: Amazon’s physical grocery store has no checkouts

Amazon has revealed that it will open a brick-and-mortar grocery store called Amazon Go, an ambitious bid by the once online-only retailer to gobble up more of Americans’ shopping dollars by taking the fight more directly to traditional supermarkets.
The store will be powered by a web of technology that allows customers to fill up their shopping bags and walk out without going through a checkout process, a concept that has long been discussed in the retail industry but that has not been implemented at any major US stores. The idea is that it will shave time off the shopping experience. Sydney Morning Herald – Read more…