Ben Kessler

Amazon Go - Amazon stores with no lines or checkout 🛍

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Vineeth Vijayan
Shopping with gf will be a mess ;'(
shravan kumar
The experience would be like magic. However, for a mom to bring her kid for the shopping, does the kid needs to have a phone with Amazon account too?
Daylen Sawchuk
@shra1cumar Good point :)
Jake Singer

I work in the same office building as Go, and love that I can pick something up in under 1 minute if I am running late to a meeting.

Pros:

Super fast, decent to good quality, good prices. What else could you want?

Cons:

Quality control is generally good, but there is occasional inconsistency I have observed with certain products (e.g. fruit)

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BrianBest
The future is cool.
James Requa
Definitely the future of retail.
Steve Johnson
James O'Sullivan
I'm wondering what how much it costs to have all these cameras and extra technology....and how much potential savings that adds up to with the reduction in staff.
Karthik Sekar
@james_osullivan I am not able to quantify that but if you think about this the only staff reduction will be checkout people there will still be people in warehouses to stock inventory etc. They may not rely just on cameras it could be combination of sensors like rfid etc from what i know some small rfid sensors costs like 50c Ease of use = more sales I think this will be a huge revenue driver for Amazon
James O'Sullivan
@karthiksekarnz Yeah there are a lot of variables. Perhaps a staff increase? Cashiers might be gone but there might be added people for oversight, and those people might need to be trained/technically qualified. It would be interesting if Amazon showcased the net differences.
Natalia Kasyanova
So, every customer of such shop has to have: 1) a smartphone; 2) a credit card connected to their account; 3) a stabile mobile internet connection; 4) the mobile Amazon shopping application. It's ok for most of local adult inhabitants, but what about kids?
Tony Brix
I can see more stores doing the checkout on your phone. Similar to Sam's Club https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Daylen Sawchuk
@tonybrix Some stores have tried it and discontinued it due to low adoption, it being too easy to shoplift, and problems with produce items that have to be weighed. It works well at Sam's Club due to the size of the items (harder to steal).
Tony Brix
@askdaylen almost all technologies have had an initial slow adoption period. (the first touch screen cell phone came out in the early '90s.) But I think this is a much better alternative to Apple/Android/etc. pay
Juan L
No Phone, no Food? or can I login before accessing?
jason
amazon go takes the friction out of deciding if you have the money to pay for something... just take it, worry later!