Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers
How disruptive will it be? Chris Johnston / BBC : Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts Daniel Cooper / Engadget : Amazon's convenience store of the future makes me nervous Ms. Smith / CSO : Amazon Go: No checkout lines at automated grocery store, ‘just grab and go’ Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Amazon Opens Checkout-Free ‘Amazon Go’ Grocery Store to the Public in Seattle Meghann Farnsworth / Recode : Photos: Here's what the new Amazon Go cashierless convenience store looks like Nick Wingfield / New York Times : Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future Daphne Howland / Retail Dive : Amazon Go opens to the public Chris Smith / BGR : Amazon's high-tech automated grocery store of the future is also super creepy Collen Kriel / SiliconANGLE : Amazon Go, the company's automated grocery store, opens its doors Monday Scott Neuman / NPR : Amazon's Cashier-Less Seattle Grocery Opens To The Public David Z. Morris / Fortune : Amazon's Cashier-Free Store Opens to the Public Tomorrow in Seattle Chris Merriman / Inquirer : Amazon opens its first fully automated supermarket Oliver Cragg / Android Authority : Here's how to use the Amazon Go app for checkout-free shopping PYMNTS.com : Amazon Go Is A Go - Today Mark Wycislik-Wilson / BetaNews : Amazon Go, the AI-powered, checkout-free store, is now open in Seattle Stephanie Mlot / Geek.com : Skip the Lines at Cashier-Less Amazon Go, Now Open in Seattle Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Amazon's cashier-less grocery store opens to the public today JC Torres / SlashGear : Amazon Go launch: here's what to expect Cosette Jarrett / VentureBeat : Amazon set to open doors on AI-powered grocery store Aaron Mamiit / Tech Times : Amazon Go Seattle Ready To Open: What Is It Like To Shop At The No Checkout Store? Josh Gardner / Newser : No More Grocery Cashiers? ‘Amazon Go’ Opens Monday ABC News : Amazon opens store with no cashiers, lines or registers Ryne Hager / Android Police : Amazon Go app hits Google Play just ahead of Seattle store opening Adnan Farooqui / Ubergizmo : Amazon's Grocery Store Of The Future Opens Tomorrow Paul Hill / Neowin : Amazon ready to open checkout-less store to public Mark Austin / Digital Trends : The Amazon Go checkout-free grocery store opens to the public January 22 Sasha Lekach / Mashable : Amazon Go app is now available ahead of cashier-less store opening Tom McKay / Gizmodo : Amazon's First Automated Brick-and-Mortar Store Opens to the Public on Monday Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant's experiment in checkout-free retail Shara Tibken / CNET : Shopping at Amazon Go is really freakin' fast Facebook: Chris M : Amazon's checkout-less grocery store is opening to the public tomorrow! Tweets: Johanna Barr / @johannabarr : what happens if your phone runs out of battery while you are inside. do you have to stay there forever http://www.nytimes.com/... Krish Ashok / @krishashok : I'm trying to imagine the implications of zero friction shopping on personal finance management. Friction shapes behavior, and not always in bad ways. Maybe there will be apps to help you resist the temptation of just picking up stuff from these stores http://twitter.com/... @techcrunch : There seems to me an immense amount of ingenuity and resources being used to “solve” something that few people care about and fewer still consider a problem http://techcrunch.com/... @geekwire : Close-up look at some of the overhead cameras in the Amazon Go store. There are both color cameras and depth cameras. The system also uses weight sensors in the store shelves. http://www.geekwire.com/... @kevinlisota photos http://twitter.com/... Alex Taussig / @ataussig : 3.5M cashiers in the U.S., one of the country's most common jobs. Huge social problem of job displacement here to address and way more near-term than fully autonomous vehicles. http://twitter.com/... Murtaza Mohammad Hussain / @mazmhussain : “But machinery does not just act as a superior competitor to the worker, always on the point of making him superfluous. It is a power inimical to him, and capital proclaims this fact loudly and deliberately.” - Karl Marx http://twitter.com/... Judd Apatow / @juddapatow : We go to bookstores to talk to people and get recommendations and be human beings. I don't like algorithms deciding what books they sell. I prefer a human's POV. Their store in LA looks gorgeous but leaves me cold and depressed. http://twitter.com/... Jonathan Howard / @staringispolite : Note: AWS has a facial recognition API. This is a treasure trove of new real-world training data. (And proof it can already track not just faces but people and things) http://twitter.com/... @goutaste : So much offline data can be collected with this process. Not just offline purchasing data, but offline product considerations and behavior patterns. Amazon is connecting the dots. http://twitter.com/... Michael Williams / @acontinuouslean : Is the problem with retail the employees? Is labor more of a factor than the rent? Is this really that much more convenient? http://twitter.com/... Adam Khan / @khanoisseur : Every day we are galloping toward more jobs being automated and replaced by robots, and little public discussion about tax policy implications or funding skills retraining or expanding the safety net for when the tsunami hits. http://twitter.com/... Nate Westheimer / @innonate : I'm so excited for you to experience this. Been shopping this way for over a year. You immediately feel “this is how it should be.” And yes there are humans there, but the humans are there 100% to help. Today, in a conventional store, helping is a small part of what cashiers do. http://twitter.com/... Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon : NYT vs FT on Amazon's new grocery store. NYT: The cameras are looking at the items. FT: The cameras are monitoring the shoppers. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.ft.com/... pic.twitter.com/idtXvVNYIj Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan : Not spooky at all: Amazon launches new store that identifies you by photographing your face from all angles, allowing you to pick up your goods and walk out - without having to queue to pay https://www.ft.com/... Abhi Singh / @thesinghabhi : Amazon Go, opens in Seattle on Monday, with no checkout lines and no cashiers. Finally facial recognition use case put to real test to larger public. This will be another #automation in retail industry which is already reeling #SundayMorning #AmazonGo http://www.recode.net/... @leolaporte : Imagine one of these on every street corner. http://www.recode.net/... Thanks: @brianmcc