Amazon has revealed plans for a grocery shop without a checkout¹ process, where customers will instead pay for the goods they have selected via an app.

 

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The Just Walk Out shopping experience uses the same types of technologies found in self-driving cars.

 

The system detects when items are taken or returned to shelves and tracks them in a virtual shopping trolley².

 

Once the shopper leaves the store, their Amazon account will be charged and receipt sent to them.

 

The first shop is expected to open to the public in Seattle in the US in early 2017.

 

"Grocery retail³ is a crowded sector⁴, and customers have incredibly high expectations of the Amazon brand," said Natalie Berg, an analyst⁵ at Planet Retail.

 

"If they're going to differentiate⁶, they'll need to translate the fantastic customer experience that they have created online in a physical store setting. This is no easy feat⁷. Removing the traditional checkout process does exactly that."

 

Customers will swipe into the store using the Go app. It will use computer vision, sensors⁸ and deep learning algorithms to keep track of what customers are picking up off the shelves.

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