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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 Go is a new kind of store featuring the world’s most advanced shopping technology. No lines, no checkout – just grab and go! Watch the video: amazon.com/go
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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
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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
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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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Amazon's just walk out stores
I dont really understand that. Anyone care to explain please? More on reddit.com
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Brookings
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Amazon Go store offers quicker checkout for greater data collection | Brookings
March 9, 2022 - Amazon Go eliminates the need for barcodes (and cashiers to scan them) by using sensors and cameras to track which items leave shelves with each customer. The technology could spell trouble for the 3.5 million U.S. workers employed as cashiers, ...
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CNBC
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Amazon Go, the cashierless retail store of the future, has some new competition
November 12, 2019 - The Amazon Go cashierless-store concept is pushing retailers to invest in technology that will eliminate checkout wait times for shoppers. Several start-ups think they have solutions that can compete with the multinational tech giant.
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NYTimes
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Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future - The New York Times
January 21, 2018 - If customers put the item back on the shelf, Amazon removes it from their virtual basket. The only sign of the technology that makes this possible floats above the store shelves — arrays of small cameras, hundreds of them throughout the store.
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Amazon Web Services
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Autonomous Retail Technology - Just Walk Out Technology - AWS
5 days ago - Computer vision powered by AI, cameras, and sensor fusion technology enables seamless product tracking and automated checkout.
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CNN
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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.
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USA Today
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Why Amazon's Just Walk Out technology may be everywhere soon
April 22, 2024 - The technology, which debuted in 2018 with the first Amazon Go convenience store in Seattle, uses artificial intelligence, a lot of cameras and some sensors to enable shoppers to grab what they want and leave without stopping at a cash register.
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Business Insider
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Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop
April 3, 2024 - Just Walk Out first appeared in Amazon Go convenience stores. The technology allowed customers to enter a store by identifying themselves with their Amazon account.
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Signalytics
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Amazon Go: The Future of Brick-And-Mortar Retail and Its Implications for Businesses
June 2, 2025 - Amazon Go uses advanced technology such as sensors, cameras, and machine learning algorithms to track the items that customers select and charge them automatically through their Amazon accounts.
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Wikipedia
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Amazon Go - Wikipedia
June 4, 2025 - Amazon described Go stores to have used several technologies, including computer vision, deep learning algorithms, and sensor fusion for the purchase, checkout, and payment steps associated with a retail transaction, which was later revealed ...
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An update on Amazon's plans for Just Walk Out and checkout-free technology
April 17, 2024 - That was the notion that originally led us to use computer vision, sensor fusion, and generative AI to invent checkout-free technologies like Just Walk Out, Amazon Dash Cart, and Amazon One (our palm recognition service for entry, identification, ...
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CampusIDNews
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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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AWS
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Enhancing Just Walk Out technology with multi-modal AI | Artificial Intelligence
September 24, 2024 - Although we’ve just scratched the surface, multi-modal AI has raised the bar for our already highly accurate receipt system and will enable us to improve the shopping experience at more Just Walk Out technology stores around the world.
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Built In Seattle
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Amazon Is Selling Its Cashierless Amazon Go Technology to Other Retailers | Built In Seattle
March 4, 2025 - The technology changes the checkout process by completely removing cashiers from the shopping experience. Instead, the Amazon Go stores use computer vision to track what you pick up and leave with, and then charge your Amazon account.
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Just Walk Out
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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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Pocket-lint
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Amazon Go stores: How the 'Just walk out' cashierless tech works
June 21, 2024 - Amazon Go stores utilize advanced technologies such as computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning, similar to those used in self-driving cars. These technologies, called Just Walk Out, track products and maintain a virtual cart for each ...
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Reddit
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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
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“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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GeekWire
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How 'Amazon Go' works: The technology behind the online retailer's groundbreaking new grocery store – GeekWire
January 13, 2017 - We used computer vision, deep learning algorithms and sensor fusion, much like you’d find in self-driving cars. We call it “Just Walk Out” technology. Once you’ve got everything you want, you can just go.
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CNN
cnn.com › 2018 › 10 › 03 › tech › amazon-go
Amazon Go: No cashiers, hundreds of cameras, and lots of data | CNN Business
October 3, 2018 - Couple that technology with augmented reality and stores could provide directions to the butcher counter, and then to the steak sauce. At least one startup is already developing in-store directions for an Amazon Go-like store.