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I don't see how Amazon go is any better than the same club app where u scan your items witb your phone and show your receipt as u walk out
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Originally Posted by wopbabalubop
Most stores already have this tech. You can use a personal scanner and buy the items as you shop without having to checkout in line.
These comments are amazing to me. Self scanning isn't close to pick up and go. They don't have this tech at all. They have "be you own checkout assistant and pay us the same amount of money", which is a bug, not a feature.
Not to mention, even with that, most people use checkouts as they don't like the self scanning. Simply picking up what you want and leaving is miles ahead of anything you guys mention, from checkout to self scanning to self checkout. This is miles ahead. How do you not see how revolutionary this is?? There is nothing like it.
I guess as poker players/self employed with time on our hands, most of us don't have any idea about how many people desire an as easy as possible shopping experience.
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Amazon and Walmart are both digital flea markets and both are trying to become more luxurious. Amazon bought Whole Foods because of Walmart. Jet+Walmart = Amazon losing market share. Walmart has started buying up "premium" brands to re-position itself, and its been working. I'm surprised Walmart didn't acquire Whole Foods first.
It would be nice to see more robust analysis of why Amazon did this. To me it seems like a natural extension of Go - why would spend tons of money developing it to never use? - but perhaps others have compelling ideas.
If Amazon meant to compete with low cost/wanted a local distribution chain, there are way better buys that Whole Foods. The only way this makes sense to me is as a premium shopping experience with Go.