Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Amazon closing out 2016 with a ton of announcements. Super interesting to see them expand to brick and mortar, a huge growth opportunity, and do it in a unique, tech-centric way.
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Ari
@ariaitch · Director of Marketing & eCommerce
@rrhoover try shoplifting and a drone will take you to jail :)
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Bear Silber
@bear_silber · Director of Growth, Selfycart
@rrhoover I love this product. It's exactly what we're working on at Selfycart but implementing it into existing stores. This will be the future of retail.
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Matthew TW Huang
@matthewtwhuang · Tech Lover, Engineer
@bear_silber @rrhoover While the self-check-out is awesome and probably the future of retail check-out. I think the main benefits of Amazon Go is much more.
With the ability to just take and buy an item, without scanning ever, the friction of buying is greatly reduced (similar to one-click purchases). This will definitely increase what people buy, particularly families.
Personally, I think the greatest advancement for Amazon Go will be tracking of the stores. Amazon could collect every moment of the store (like the casino in Oceans 13). They can get the reactions of customers for every product. They can see where the consumers eyes are going. Amazon could change the lighting to highlight/feature items for every individual.
With Amazon's Kiva systems, they could even customize the shelves for particular times of the day without any effort from employees.
Retail stores will have to "Grow or die" -Phil Knight
I'm excited to see where retail stores will go.
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Michael Tomko
@michaeltomko · Production Director, The Able Few
@matthewtwhuang @bear_silber @rrhoover Super glad to hear that I'm not the only person who made any Oceans 13 references when talking about Amazon Go.
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Emmanuel Lemor
@exlemor · Cust. Exp., Prod. Mgmt etc are my world.
@bear_silber - I just wanted to check out Selfycart's website -
Can you please fix it so that it's not 100mg to have it come up before the site shows anything on it [36secs] ? even with a fast connection that's insane :/
[a full load is 164mg :/]
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Emmanuel Lemor
@exlemor · Cust. Exp., Prod. Mgmt etc are my world.
@rrhoover But is that really progress that we need or want... personally, I will not want a store without people/employees in it. Part of why I go into stores is the human interaction [yes, even if sometimes it's not 'ideal' interaction]
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