Inside Amazon Go
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Inside Amazon Go
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#2No shopping carts? Maybe for a convenience store that's ok. I shop at Costco without a car, and I bring two large carry bags. But I don't carry them around inside the store unless I'm just buying one or two things. I buy a lot of heavy things (oh god those watermelons, never again.) And I don't want my arms getting tired in the store. It's bad enough for the 1.5km I have to walk back to my place.
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#3The innovation in rethinking the convenience store is not only in the technology, but also the fact that they're likely going to not sell nasty gas station snacks.
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#4The innovation in rethinking the convenience store is not only in the technology, but also the fact that they're likely going to not sell nasty gas station snacks.
The latter point isn't an innovation. My local grocery store (not a big franchise) doesn't sell nasty snacks, either. They've been in business a lot longer than Amazon.
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#5"Amazon won’t say much about how the system works, other than to say it involves sophisticated computer vision and machine learning software." Why do I have the feeling this probably actually translates to humans staring at video feeds a lot of the time?
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#6The innovation in rethinking the convenience store is not only in the technology, but also the fact that they're likely going to not sell nasty gas station snacks.
The latter point isn't an innovation. My local grocery store (not a big franchise) doesn't sell nasty snacks, either. They've been in business a lot longer than Amazon.
The innovation part is how this Go store has the power to bring healthy snacks into general convenience stores and gas stations and getting the disease causing ones to be pushed out.
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#7Given Amazon's knowledge in warehouse operations and supply chain, I wouldn't guess they plan to use this technology widespread in grocery stores. At that point, they could take a simpler approach than all the cameras and computer vision, by instead treating a grocery store like a warehouse or vending machine (no human shoppers like other grocers today who offer delivery). People enter their orders online, and stop by in person to collect their cart at the front desk. All the food would be behind closed doors. Only downside to that is customers who want to leisure shop and browse for new items.
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#8No shopping carts? Maybe for a convenience store that's ok. I shop at Costco without a car, and I bring two large carry bags. But I don't carry them around inside the store unless I'm just buying one or two things. I buy a lot of heavy things (oh god those watermelons, never again.) And I don't want my arms getting tired in the store. It's bad enough for the 1.5km I have to walk back to my place.
For the first time in history we have a grocery store without cashiers, and you’re nitpicking that there’s no shopping carts?
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#9"Amazon won’t say much about how the system works, other than to say it involves sophisticated computer vision and machine learning software." Why do I have the feeling this probably actually translates to humans staring at video feeds a lot of the time?
The "Our AI/ML technology is in Bangladesh" rollout
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#10"Amazon won’t say much about how the system works, other than to say it involves sophisticated computer vision and machine learning software." Why do I have the feeling this probably actually translates to humans staring at video feeds a lot of the time?
Heh I bet you’re right.
>“We’ve just put associates on different kinds of tasks where we think it adds to the customer experience,” Ms. Puerini said.