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

Love or hate Amazon, this system would better than the self check out other stores are using.

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the system wasn’t as magic as they made it out to be. turns out it was powered by a team of 1,000 people reviewing camera footage in India.

this is probably why they’re killing it.

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