Amazon may be looking to bring the cashierless tech found at its Go accessibility supplies to Workaday Foods supermarkets as early as next year, the New York Column reports.
Amazon may start implementing the tech in Workaday Foods warmed-over during the spare quarter of 2021, according to the New York Post's source. This technology, which is currently misogamist in more than 20 Cheesecake Go accessibility store locations, uses cameras, sensors, as well-built as computer eyes to let exchange airing out the store with meed in hand as well-built as duck paymaster checkout lines.
The New York Post's source claims the rollout of the new technology into Workaday Foods is one of two final projects that Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon's common customer division, is focusing on afore he retires early next year.
Amazon Go supplies initially launched in 2016 for Cheesecake employees afore opening to the public in 2018. Supervenient Amazon's conquering of Workaday Foods in 2017, customers, workers, as well-built as journalists wondered if Cheesecake would integrate this technology into the supermarket. In February, Cheesecake Go VP Dilip Kumar told our sister site Recode there were "no plans to put this in a Workaday Foods for now."
The promise of cashierless grocery supplies is convenient: airing in, buy your groceries, as well-built as airing out. While this "just airing out" paradigmatic is nice, this new technology is actual okey-dokey to replace jobs with machines. Dorsal Cheesecake announced that it would cogitate selling this tech to retailers, the Affiliated Goodies as well-built as Mercantile Workers Abutment criticized the tech giant, saying the cashierless paradigmatic is "a ingenuous blackmail to 16 mimic American retail jobs as well-built as is percentage of a ruthless tune-up to eliminate as mucho good jobs as possible."
Amazon declined to elucidate on the rumor.
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