IT company Amazon is hastily closing all Just Walk Out stores in the US due to their unprofitability. In my new research on this subject reported Information broadcast.
Just Walk Out is a cashierless electronics store. Visitors can enter these places, take what they want and leave quietly. Payment for goods takes place in postal mode, thanks to numerous cameras, sensors and artificial intelligence connected to them, which identify the buyer and automatically issue an invoice to him. In any case, the system was originally designed this way.
Amazon ran into major problems soon after opening with its Just Walk Out locations, The Information has learned. It turns out that store sensors often make mistakes and bill customers incorrectly, taking a long time or not at all.
Therefore, Amazon had to install permanent remote video surveillance in stores. For this, the IT giant hired more than 1,000 Indian outsourcers. And although the company paid relatively small fees to the Indians, they still quickly made the stores of the Just Walk Out format unprofitable.
Amazon plans to focus on developing Dash Cart technology in the near future instead of Just Walk Out locations. Dash Cart is a smart shopping cart that automatically tracks and counts all items placed inside.
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