Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

I thought the packaging would have an extra tag on it that would get scanned as you left? Uniqlo already does something similar at their locations. You just dump clothes in a bucket and the tag (can’t remember if they’re RFID or what) is automatically registered and added to your bill. Just make a tunnel variant and have people go through single file or something. They’re already scanning people’s palms to pay for Christ’s sake.

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I had assumed it was a Uniqlo style thing using tags. That truly is magical, like living in the future. This Amazon stuff with the cameras and constant surveillance, not so much…

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