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KUOW - Is Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ technology powered by AI or by hundreds of underpaid workers in India?
April 13, 2024 - The world’s first Amazon Go store in Seattle opened on Jan. 22, 2018. The New York Times called it “A Store of the Future,” where all customers had to do was pop an item in their cart and walk out. A little over six years in the future, developers for Amazon's “Just Walk Out” technology ...
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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts - which relied on more than 1000 people in India watching you as you shopped
Wait, I thought they had pitched it on being done by AI. The fact that this is how it worked is shady as hell and dishonest. More on reddit.com
ELI5: How does Amazon's cashierless 'Just Walk Out' tech work?
Probably not- it's probably RFID chips (radio frequency identification), which are basically low-range radio-wave versions of bar codes. You load up your cart, walk past the sensors in the door, and it reads all the RFID frequencies being broadcast by your products. More on reddit.com
Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Fresh grocery stores in the US
Wait so what did the system actually do? I remember it using logistical math and RFID to track the stores products was it really just people off site watching?
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I dont really understand that. Anyone care to explain please? More on reddit.com
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Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future - The New York Times
January 21, 2018 - The technology inside Amazon’s new convenience store, opening Monday in downtown Seattle, enables a shopping experience like no other — including no checkout lines. ... Jan. 21, 2018 ... SEATTLE — The first clue that there’s something unusual about Amazon’s store of the future hits you right at the front door. It feels as if you are entering a subway station. A row of gates guard the entrance to the store, known as Amazon Go, allowing in only people with the store’s smartphone app.
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Autonomous Retail Technology - Just Walk Out Technology - AWS
4 days ago - Computer vision powered by AI, cameras, and sensor fusion technology enables seamless product tracking and automated checkout.
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Amazon’s cashier-less technology was supposed to revolutionize grocery shopping. It’s been a flop | CNN Business
April 3, 2024 - In a statement, Amazon said it will continue using the Just Walk Out technology in Amazon Go stores, at smaller format Fresh stores in the UK, and third-party locations such as certain sports stadiums and college campuses. Amazon had used roughly 1,000 humans in India, according to some news reports, to help monitor accurate checkouts.
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Amazon stores remove their company’s own Just Walk Out technology - CampusIDNews
February 7, 2025 - In Spring 2024, Amazon pulled the technology from its Amazon Fresh stores. At the time, there were 44 locations of which 27 used Just Walk Out, according to Convenience.org. They replaced the AI-enabled system with smart shopping carts that let shoppers to scan items as they move through the store. Amazon continued to use Just Walk Out in its smaller Amazon Go shops, however, the Go store concept has not grown as expected.
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Eliminate checkout lines. Increase revenue with cost-optimized technology - AWS Just Walk Out
Customers enter or exit the store with a payment method, bypassing a checkout-line. The technology uses camera vision and sensor fusion, or RFID technology which allows them to simply walk away with their items.
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r/Cyberpunk on Reddit: Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts - which relied on more than 1000 people in India watching you as you shopped
April 2, 2024 -
“Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.”
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Wait, I thought they had pitched it on being done by AI. The fact that this is how it worked is shady as hell and dishonest.
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Damn, if I had a nickel for every “fully automated system” that turned out to be a Mechanical Turk full of underpaid overseas laborers I’d be a rich bastard.