Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores

fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or they got the behavioral data they needed and shutdown the project.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They alreadt bought Whole Foods.

    Their systems for the just-walk-out technology never worked right.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Here’s hoping they selling Whole Foods next. They’ve certainly ruined it.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        How did they ruin it? I don’t really shop there because I don’t want to spend eight dollars on asparagus water.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I used to like Whole Foods :(

        I don’t shop at Sprout’s anymore either since I found out they donate to the GOP…

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What sketchy locations? I'm guessing by your name that you're in Seattle. I live in Seattle. There are no sketchy places here.

      They never did work well, though, that's true. It was more awkward than just paying normally.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There are no sketchy places here.

        Glaces at the entire length of Aurora Avenue

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      they are also completed with a well liked brand, whole foods.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Did they ever get it to be actual AI?

  Last time I heard about it they were just paying very low wages to people in India to watch everyone on webcams or something stupid

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  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was more accurately described as computer vision at the time, but your memory is right. They wanted to get to 5% of sales being human reviewed, but it was more like 70%.

    What’s funny about Amazon’s efforts for Just Walk Out is that checkout free shopping already existed. Simply by letting customers carry a handheld scanner and payment terminal around the store with them.

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    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I miss those hand scanners. I used to shoplift ~$50 worth of veg every trip. I wish I could get away with just burning Kroger to the ground, but that was all I could manage at the time.

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      7-11 theoretically already has it for their app; you scan with your phone and pay with Apple or Google Pay. The only thing is that you’re supposed to sort of wave the completed transaction at the cashier as you go, but the only reason you’d really need to use portable self-checkout is if the cashier is busy, and when they’re busy they don’t want you breaking in line or to stop what they’re doing to see that you’re showing them a plausibly legitimate checkout screen.

      In a completely, utterly, definitely unrelated story, I got accused of shoplifting by a 7-11 cashier the other day.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        7-11 doesn’t actually have this program, OC just shoplifts there all the time

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It seems like it would work better to build the scanning tech into baskets/carts.

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      • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That could work also, but not all shops have carts, and people don’t always need a basket. It’s common enough to scan things and pop them directly into a bag you brought, skipping the need for a basket altogether.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    AI stands for “actually, Indians”

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