Amazon is dropping no-checkout tech from many grocery stores

Amazon is struggling to make its Just Walk Out technology commercially viable.

Apr 03, 2024

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In 2016, Amazon announced a no-checkout technology called Just Walk Out to great fanfare. Amazon launched its first Amazon Go store using the technology in 2018. That same year Bloomberg reported that Amazon “is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years.”

Nothing like that happened. Today Amazon’s w…

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