The first supermarket without cashiers of the Amazon company opens today Monday on the same street where the Amazon headquarters is located, in Seattle. This is the first time that it has been officially opened to the public, beyond the first tests carried out previously with Amazon's own employees and in which they were able to give an account of several failures in the collections of the purchases made by the "supposed" first customers.
Now all this is behind us and we already have the first Amazon Go supermarket open to buy from our smartphone and in a simple way, more or less to get an idea is as simple as access the supermarket and from the smartphone application pay and go home with the purchase, without more.
This way of buying should be in operation for a long time, but as we announced the problems with payments through the application have delayed its final opening and today they go live. Inside the supermarket you can find what we would find in any other supermarket, in addition to fast food to go and various fresh products that are being replenished with sales.
This is the video from Amazon itself in which it shows us the Amazon Go:
The operation is quite simple and once we access the supermarket we have to scan our device with the Amazon Go application installed and fully compatible with iOS and Android. Obviously we have to have an account registered with Amazon to use the supermarket. Once the entrance scanner has passed, we will be registered in the system as one more object of the supermarket and the sensors and cameras will record which products we touch, choose and other data, as the TWSJ explains.
Amazon hints that after the purchase of the supermarket chain Whole Foods, it could implement Go stores in more places in the US. This is something that will be seen in the coming weeks, at the moment we have the first supermarket open and we all know how Amazon is spending it, so we do not think its expansion will delay too much.