Category Archives: Amazon Automation
Palm Print Biometric News from Amazon – Check-out Free and get $10
Amazon Palm Payment From Tech Crunch Aug 2021 – Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker / 12:49 PM MDT•August 2, 2021 In Brief Actually pretty good idea to use palm biometrics. Other methods intersect with too many others, most of which are in sensitive sectors (fingerprint in corrections for example or IRIS in DHS) Excerpt How much is your palm print worth? If you… Read More »
Biometric Payment Palm — Amazon Palm Payment Whole Foods
Amazon Palm Payment Posted on GroceryDive Apr2021 — Dive Brief: Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is expanding Amazon One, which lets users pay with their palm prints, to Whole Foods Market stores. The payment technology is now available at Whole Foods’ Madison Broadway location in Seattle and will expand to seven other area locations in the coming months, Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s… Read More »
Amazon AI Delivery Truck Cameras Become Last Straw
From BusinessInsider March 2021 The Thomson Reuters Foundation published a report Friday about an Amazon driver in Denver for whom the company’s constant artificial-intelligence-driven surveillance proved to be too much. Vic, who asked the Thomson Reuters Foundation to use only his first name “for fear of retaliation,” this month quit his job delivering packages for the tech giant. Insider reported in… Read More »
Amazon Automated Grocery Cart
Amazon is rolling out grocery carts Amazon is automating the grocery cart making it into a smart grocery cart or an intelligent cart whichever you prefer. All the scanning is built into the cart. Noted on CNBC July 2020 Key Points Amazon is launching smart shopping carts at its Woodland Hills, California, grocery store in 2020. Dash Carts… Read More »
Amazon will start selling cashierless Go
From The Verge March 2020 Amazon will start selling the technology behind its cashierless Amazon Go stores to other retailers, according to Reuters. Amazon reportedly has “several” retailers already signed up to use the system, which is being marketed as Just Walk Out technology by Amazon. Amazon’s website for the service invites other retailers to make inquiries. Amazon’s… Read More »
Amazon Store #1 in Seattle Opens and Cashierless
Feb 2020 – Very complete article by CNBC including videos of new cashierless store Amazon has just opened. Amazon has been working on this since 2015. Includes produce section. You can get yourself a cup of coffee (and get charged for it). Key Points Five years in the making, the first Amazon Go Grocery store is opening Tuesday… Read More »
7-Eleven Testing Cashierless Store Concept
Source: Borndigital.com 2/6/2020 and Supermarket News Cashierless now being tested by 7-Eleven at Irving Texas headquarters. 7-Eleven said Wednesday that the 700-square-foot store is only for employees, who first must download an app and sign up. To shop, they use the app to gain entry to the store and then take the items they want and exit. A… Read More »
Amazon Ramps Up Its Physical Retail Plans — Including Cashier-less Grocery Stores
Amazon Retail Grocery Stores CONTRIBUTOR Danny Vena The Motley Fool PUBLISHED NOV 20, 2019 2:22PM EST NASDAQ Full Article — The rumor mill has switched into high gear when it comes to Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its relentless push into physical retail. Earlier this month, the e-commerce giant confirmed that it will be opening a line of grocery stores next year under a different name… Read More »
Amazon credits AI-driven enhancements and mathematical optimizations for Locker growth
At a breakout session during Amazon’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, Samyukta Sethuraman, a senior research scientist at the Seattle company’s cross-disciplinary AI team, gave an update on Amazon Locker, Amazon’s self-service parcel delivery service. She said that Locker usage is growing at a steady clip and that machine learning has improved reliability. For the uninitiated, Locker allows shoppers to… Read More »