Amazon opened a 1,800-square-foot convenience store in Seattle Monday without cashiers or registers, The New York Times reports.
Here are four things to know about the store, called Amazon Go.
1. The entrance to Amazon Go is lined with a row of gates, similar to the entrance of a subway station. To enter, customers must have the store's smartphone app.
2. The mini-market houses shelves of soda, potato chips and other convenience store food, according to the report. Amazon Go also features food found at Whole Foods, which Amazon owns.
3. As customers take items off a shelf, the product is automatically added to customers' online basket. Should a customer put a product back, Amazon deletes it from their virtual shopping cart. The technology making this possible is suspended above the store shelves. Small cameras use computer vision and machine learning to identify each product, The New York Times reports.
4. There are no shopping carts or baskets in the store. Customers put items into the bag they will leave with. As they pass through the same gates they entered, their Amazon account is automatically charged for the chosen items.
For the full article from The New York Times, click here.
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