Amazon is officially offering its “Just Walk Out” autonomous checkout experience in its Whole Foods Market division.
As announced in September 2021, Amazon is now live with “Just Walk Out” at a new 21,500-sq.-ft. Whole Foods store in Washington, D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood. Amazon’s Just Walk Out” tech leverages a combination of computer vision, sensor fusion and deep learning — similar to what is used in a self-driving car — that enables shoppers to shop the store, select products and skip the checkout when they’re done.
Originally available only in Amazon Go convenience and small-format grocery stores, Amazon has been rolling out the technology to select Amazon Fresh high-tech grocery locations also licenses the technology to third-party retailers.
Source: Chain Store Age
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