I did not realise that the Amazon Go/Fresh “just walk out” technology was in fact significantly powered by a thousand people in India manually labelling things. And now it turns out that they can’t actually close the automation gap, they’re ditching it as it’s too expensive?
Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
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