Amazon Go fuck yourself lmaooo
Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-fresh-go-stores-closing-expanding-whole-foods
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Drusas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I went into the Amazon Fresh store to make a return once and decided to check it out. The store looked like a regular grocery store, except there was almost nobody in it. Everyone there was for returns and pickup orders.
Also, as you might expect, it had only the most popular versions of the most commonly consumed products. It was like a caricature of an American grocery store.
unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like my experience making a return at an Amazon Books physical store a few years ago. It was like an airport bookstore filled with bestsellers and generic giftable items, no niche/specialized interests. The returns counter was slammed but there weren’t many people browsing.
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Wow, I remember when they had a single Go store at Amazon HQ in Seattle, and it was employee only. It sure was neat as a novelty, but it doesn’t surprise me that they could never figure out the tech.
Good riddance. These days, I more and more cherish the brief but real interactions I have with real grocery store cashiers.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For me, it isn’t the interactions, it’s the inconvenience of having to wait in line and either wait for a checker to scan my items or scan them myself at self checkout. I don’t mind small talk with the checker, but faster grocery trips would be awesome.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You need to ask yourself, why the rush? For me it was/is social anxiety. Hated the store. Hated shopping. Rush rush in out go go go.
Once I worked on that, I found ways to make it much more tolerable. Now the five minutes in line are just five minutes I can play on my phone.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stores I go to have lines for both. For me, it’s about how I didn’t want to go to the shop in the first place and I want to do as little as possible there while I listen to music on my earbuds. I also prefer to pack my stuff without someone right there… the pressure!
bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
good, fuck amazon. close whole foods next
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LoL, if you think this is them scaling back something. Think again. This is the next evolution of their business. They’re trying to phase out people using grocery stores and in person stores in general.
bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
of course this is them cutting the fat, and yet a reduced presence in the streets is an improvement
fubarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wonder if ‘just walk out’ not scaling up had anything to do with it:
arstechnica.com/…/amazon-ends-ai-powered-store-ch…
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Or they got the behavioral data they needed and shutdown the project.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They alreadt bought Whole Foods.
Their systems for the just-walk-out technology never worked right.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AI stands for “actually, Indians”