SEATTLE — Amazon is cracking further into the $800 billion U.S. grocery industry, keeping the likes of Walmart, Kroger, 7-Eleven and Instacart on their toes.
The online behemoth on
Tuesday is opening its first, full-size, cashierless grocery store. Five years
in the making, the Amazon Go Grocery is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of
Seattle, in the Amazon corporate headquarters’ backyard.
Amazon has been
working on the space since 2015. At 10,400 square feet, the store at 610 E. Pike
St. incorporates the same technology found in the two dozenor so Amazon Go
locations. Shoppers can walk in, scan a QR code from their Amazon mobile app at
a turnstile, carry or add whatever they want to their baskets throughout the
store, and walk out when they are finished. Zero human interaction is required,
though the store will staff a couple dozen people to help stock shelves and
answer shoppers’ questions |||READ
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