Amazon Go fuck yourself lmaooo
Wow, I remember when they had a single Go store at Amazon HQ in Seattle, and it was employee only. It sure was neat as a novelty, but it doesn’t surprise me that they could never figure out the tech.
Good riddance. These days, I more and more cherish the brief but real interactions I have with real grocery store cashiers.
For me, it isn’t the interactions, it’s the inconvenience of having to wait in line and either wait for a checker to scan my items or scan them myself at self checkout. I don’t mind small talk with the checker, but faster grocery trips would be awesome.
You need to ask yourself, why the rush? For me it was/is social anxiety. Hated the store. Hated shopping. Rush rush in out go go go.
Once I worked on that, I found ways to make it much more tolerable. Now the five minutes in line are just five minutes I can play on my phone.
Stores I go to have lines for both. For me, it’s about how I didn’t want to go to the shop in the first place and I want to do as little as possible there while I listen to music on my earbuds. I also prefer to pack my stuff without someone right there… the pressure!
This is so prototypical gen z
I’m not gen z.
My bad. Should’ve recognized your username
The issue isn’t self check or in person or whatever for me, it’s having to wait in a line at all. Being able to just walk out takes so much less time than checking out.
I went into the Amazon Fresh store to make a return once and decided to check it out. The store looked like a regular grocery store, except there was almost nobody in it. Everyone there was for returns and pickup orders.
Also, as you might expect, it had only the most popular versions of the most commonly consumed products. It was like a caricature of an American grocery store.
Wonder if ‘just walk out’ not scaling up had anything to do with it:
Or they got the behavioral data they needed and shutdown the project.
They already bought Whole Foods.
Their systems for the just-walk-out technology never worked right, and they just ended up opening grocery stores in sketchy locations in an already-crowded market.
Here’s hoping they selling Whole Foods next. They’ve certainly ruined it.
I used to like Whole Foods :(
I don’t shop at Sprout’s anymore either since I found out they donate to the GOP…
Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to donate to politicians. They can’t vote. If the ceo wants to support a candidate, make them take the money out of their own pocket.
You’ll have to take that up with John Roberts regarding Citizen’s United…
How did they ruin it? I don’t really shop there because I don’t want to spend eight dollars on asparagus water.
A lot of quality merch is no longer carried. Their deli and premade fridges are poorer quality now. I used to stop by there to pick up a healthy lunch from time to time. Not anymore.
Employees have complained online about working conditions being more like an Amazon warehouse now than a grocery store.
What sketchy locations? I’m guessing by your name that you’re in Seattle. I live in Seattle. There are no sketchy places here.
They never did work well, though, that’s true. It was more awkward than just paying normally.
There are no sketchy places here.
Glaces at the entire length of Aurora Avenue
Did they ever get it to be actual AI?
Last time I heard about it they were just paying very low wages to people in India to watch everyone on webcams or something stupid
It was more accurately described as computer vision at the time, but your memory is right. They wanted to get to 5% of sales being human reviewed, but it was more like 70%.
What’s funny about Amazon’s efforts for Just Walk Out is that checkout free shopping already existed. Simply by letting customers carry a handheld scanner and payment terminal around the store with them.
I miss those hand scanners. I used to shoplift ~$50 worth of veg every trip. I wish I could get away with just burning Kroger to the ground, but that was all I could manage at the time.
7-11 theoretically already has it for their app; you scan with your phone and pay with Apple or Google Pay. The only thing is that you’re supposed to sort of wave the completed transaction at the cashier as you go, but the only reason you’d really need to use portable self-checkout is if the cashier is busy, and when they’re busy they don’t want you breaking in line or to stop what they’re doing to see that you’re showing them a plausibly legitimate checkout screen.
In a completely, utterly, definitely unrelated story, I got accused of shoplifting by a 7-11 cashier the other day.
7-11 doesn’t actually have this program, OC just shoplifts there all the time
Both things could be true.
It seems like it would work better to build the scanning tech into baskets/carts.
That could work also, but not all shops have carts, and people don’t always need a basket. It’s common enough to scan things and pop them directly into a bag you brought, skipping the need for a basket altogether.
AI stands for “actually, Indians”
I relied on Amazon Fresh deliveries during the pandemic. While convenient, after using them a few times I realized they have poor produce quality and a very limited selection of premium brands.
Instacart is the same thing but you can choose your grocery store and you’re not supporting amazon.
Instacart implements dynamic pricing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr7xSxsGo
Fuck.
