How does the Amazon supermarket, where there are no sellers or cashiers

News24xx.com - In a week in Seattle, Amazon opened an offline store that will be the first in a revolution in the retail world. To get to the supermarket, called Amazon Go, buyers enter the smartphone with QR code from the application to the turnstile.

The area of the trading floor is small - 167 square meters, the usual foodstuffs are laid out on the shelves. But nowhere are neither sellers nor cashiers. There are only consultants who help orient and check the documents for the purchase of alcoholic beverages.

There are no carts in Amazon Go. Buyers immediately put the products in branded bags and go home with them. Each item taken from the shelf is automatically entered into the shopping list in the client’s online account. If you put it back, and the program will delete the position from the virtual basket. At the exit, the person again applies the smartphone to the reader and instantly pays for purchases. No queues at the cashbox.

Amazon doesn't really share how this tricky mechanism works. Judging by the hundreds of small cameras floating under the ceiling, the technology is based on the principles of computer vision. This means that the program tracks absolutely all products in the store, and it doesn’t require attaching a chip to each chocolate bar or sticking a bar code.

Question: And where will people work when everything around becomes automated? Only in the USA, there are more than three and a half million cashiers, and they are fit to worry about their employment. Amazon representatives say jobs will continue. In addition to consultants, the store employs cooks and merchandisers who lay goods on the shelves.