Amazon opened a grocery store without cash desks

The online retailer Amazon announced the opening in Seattle, where the main office of the company is located, a grocery store without a cash desk. According to the commercial published on December 5, visitors will be able to, having dialed all the necessary goods, “just leave” from the store.

The store is called Amazon Go. Currently, it is tested by the company's employees. For everyone, it will open in early 2017.

To make purchases in the store you will need the Amazon Go mobile application. The control of what products the buyer took from the shelf (or put back) is carried out using computer vision and deep training (as noted in the company, these technologies are used in unmanned vehicles). Money for purchases will be written off from the Amazon account.

• In October 2016, Business Insider reported with reference to Amazon internal documents that the company plans to open up to 20 grocery stores in the United States until the end of 2018, and for 10 years, if the program was successful, up to two thousand stores. The publication did not say that there would be no cash desk in stores; The publication reported that half of the first 20 stores will be a pick -up point, and half - “traditional” stores.
• In November 2015, Amazon opened his first book offline store in Seattle.