Amazon /ˈæməˌzɑn/ is opening a grocery /'ɡrosəri/ store /stɔr/ with no cashiers/kæ'ʃiə/ and no checkout lines
By Mike [maɪk] Murphy['mɝfi]
We’re getting closer to a future where we don’t ever have to talk to another human we don’t want to.
Amazon announced on Dec[dɪ'sɛmbɚ]. 5 that it will open a grocery store in Seattle[si'ætl], Washington[ˈwɑʃɪŋtən], in early 2017, where customers will be able to walk in, pick up the items they want to buy, and walk out. To achieve this, Amazon will launch[lɔntʃ] an app called Amazon Go (also the name of the store) which hungry customers will use to register that they’re in the store.
Amazon says[sɛz] that through sensors ['sɛnsɚ], computer vision, and deep learning, it’s able to track customers as they move about the store, and automatically/ˌ ɔtəˈmætɪk l..ɪ/ register which items get picked up. If customers change their mind about an item, they just have to put it back and Amazon will automatically remove it from their bill. All the prepared food (salads/'sæləd/, sandwiches/ˈsændˌwɪtʃ/, etc[ɪt'sɛtərə, ɛt-].) is handmade['hænd'med], but is sold in boxes, which thankfully are not made of cardboard ['kɑrdbɔrd] or held together with Amazon Prime[praɪm] tape[tep].
Amazon imagines its vision for the future as utopian/ju'topɪən/. Customers are tracked as they move around stores, buying their pre-packaged goods, and moving about in silence/'saɪləns/—cutting down on the massive/'mæsɪv/ lines that some grocery stores and lunch spots experience during the work week. However, there’s the very dystopian /dɪsˈtopiən/ question of what that all means for the millions /'mɪljən/of people employed in the US as cashiers/kæ'ʃiə/.
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