Amazon Go

[MatsyLR]

Until they show it WORKING, I don't believe this at all.

 

[diamount]

Until they show it WORKING, I don't believe this at all.

I don't understand what is hard to believe about this concept.

 

[Siliconslave]

same - hundreds of parcels over last 2 years - never missed one!

They've messed up a few times for me, not even mad though as annother months free prime

 

[mrk]

Bring it on.

I ******* hate interacting with people.

People aren't that bad. With that sort of attitude you'll be that old guy that everybody talks about for the wrong reasons in years to come

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I want to invite you to go shopping at Lidl Streatham on a Saturday.



How there hasn't been a US style massacre there is beyond me. I've actually had to walk out at one point for fear of wrapping a shopping trolley around someone's neck.

Yeah - that's why I do my shopping online and get it delivered - although interacting with the delivery driver is still a chore. If I could figure out a way of just getting him to pop it in a storage bin so I can unpack it later I'd be golden.

People aren't that bad. With that sort of attitude you'll be that old guy that everybody talks about for the wrong reasons in years to come

I'm 38 and people already say that about me. Meh, autism, what you gonna do?

 

[tom_e]

I want to invite you to go shopping at Lidl Streatham on a Saturday.



How there hasn't been a US style massacre there is beyond me. I've actually had to walk out at one point for fear of wrapping a shopping trolley around someone's neck.

I have this fear everytime I visit my local Aldi nevermind when I go it's a very stressful experience, my local Waitrose on the other hand is a joy at all times apart from when I get the bill.

 

[diamount]

I have this fear everytime I visit my local Aldi nevermind when I go it's a very stressful experience, my local Waitrose on the other hand is a joy at all times apart from when I get the bill.

If you can afford Waitrose, why visit a budget store in the first place? Seeing how the other half live?

 

[tom_e]

If you can afford Waitrose, why visit a budget store in the first place? Seeing how the other half live?

When I've just ridden my 40 minute commute home and I'm cold and wet I put a high price on convenience and Waitrose is on my way home unlike Aldi where I have to go past my nice warm dry house and then back again

 

[Dj_Jestar]

What happens if you decide to put something back on the shelf?

You watch the video and it tells you.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Will you be able to play Pokémon Go in Amazon Go?

 

[Raymond Lin]

Until they show it WORKING, I don't believe this at all.

Until they show it NOT working...then I will believe it. As in what kind of problems could this bring up.

1 - items not registering
2 - items registered twice or 3 times?
3 - wrong items being registered
4 - does it work if my phone dies mid shopping?

What about loose goods such as fruit and vegetables? I guess you can't split a bunch of banana and take 3 instead.

I would love for it to work.

 

[tang0]

They've had the store in testing for a while apparently, they wouldn't say they are opening it to the public unless they didn't think it was going to work

 

[Lmg80]

I love amazon

 

[DaleTheWhale]

AH the cupcake part, I must have looked away first time.

You watch the video and it tells you.

Thumbs up.

 

[Tummy]

For you.

My Amazon delivery record is almost flawless, with many things arriving before their ETA if not Prime.

+1.

 

[Malevolence]

Beat up a hipster, nick their phone and get a weeks shopping done for free.

Excellent, I'm in.

 

[RoboCod]

Lol, embracing new technologies and moving with the times makes you a hipster now

 

[dowie]

Like driverless cars, will never work here I'm afraid. It's all very well having it in gentrified parts of US cities like Seattle, but in the UK the scrotes will be having a field day, it'll be 2011 all over again.

not really as I alluded to already it is a simple problem to resolve - ban them or don't let them in in the first place....

it is rather hard to steal from a place that allows you to grab stuff off the shelves and walk out.... since you're going to need an amazon account and a credit/debit card to gain entry then the casual shoplifters are a bit stumped. Sure people using stolen credit cards might try it on but that is another level of thieving and carries rather a lot of risk

 

[dowie]

What about loose goods such as fruit and vegetables? I guess you can't split a bunch of banana and take 3 instead.

I don't think that is a big issue in the grand scheme of things - identifying fruit is like a first project in machine vision courses - ok obviously this is a bit more than 2d images but still... I think Amazon has enough ML talent that splitting a banana is not going to be an issue - frankly it is a distinct enough series of steps that it would be surprising if it wasn't learned rather quickly by their system.

 

[Tefal]

it's a very cool idea, the fact that its continuously monitoring everything in the store by computer vision is the interesting part, essentially means its very easy (if labour intensive) to go back and learn from the old 'tapes' - I imagine the amount they'll learn from it will far outweigh any losses from miss recognition etc.

Tried to pitch something very similar to this to the major supermarket some years ago where you'd self scan with your phone and then just walk out. They were having none of it, far too high a risk in their minds.

Tesco etc offer thst now dont they?

Get the hand held scanner go round the shop scan everything come to the self scan tills it reads the scanner you pay and you go