Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
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It always seemed like a massive amount of money and effort, to replace a couple dozen low wage workers. In the end it didn’t even do that.

The article says they replaced them with remote workers in India, I’m assuming with even lower wages

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