Makes sense, Amazon has developed means for automatic checkout tech. Which requires data and AI methods for its use, Amazon and AWS is an expert at that. In our own lab work with IBM and retail security system providers, we noted its similarity to product identification and tracking.
Amazon's Just Walk Out till-free tech offered to rivals By Leo Kelion, BBC
Amazon opened its largest Go Grocery shop, last month, in Seattle
Amazon is offering its till-less technology to other High Street shops, just over two years after launching it via its own Go Grocery chain.
Go Grocery shoppers scan a smartphone app as they arrive, allowing them to pay via their main Amazon accounts.
It has now adapted its Just Walk Out system for other retailers so shoppers register a payment card on entry and are automatically billed as they leave.
But, unlike at Go Grocery, it will not use the data to track customer habits.
"We only collect the data needed to provide shoppers with an accurate receipt," Amazon's website says.
"Shoppers can think of this as similar to typical security camera footage."
The system involves fitting a shop with hundreds of cameras and depth-sensors, whose data is then remotely analysed on Amazon's computer servers.
The software can distinguish whether a shopper has picked up and kept a product for purchase or if they have only examined an item before replacing it back on a shelf.
Amazon says it can install the required equipment in "as little as a few weeks". ...."
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