Tutti i negozi Amazon Fresh nel Regno Unito per chiudere
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/23/all-amazon-fresh-stores-in-uk-to-close-whole-foods
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Tutti i negozi Amazon Fresh nel Regno Unito per chiudere
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/23/all-amazon-fresh-stores-in-uk-to-close-whole-foods
di a3poify
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An interesting experiment, but it always felt like more of a hassle to get my phone out at the start of the shopping trip to get in than to get it out at the end to pay at the till, for some reason.
Good. We need more independently owned shops and less marketplace consolidation by silicon valley tech giants.
I visited one of these at excel and I thought I did it right but found out I just shop lifted my lunch as it never charged me. It was a cool experiment but we seem to struggle with self service terminals, so this was a bit too futuristic
I’ve never heard of or seen these. Guessing it was a London thing.
Were those the ones that were supposed to use AI to check what you bought and bill you but it turned out to be underpaid overseas workers checking the cameras manually?
Our supermarket sector is already dominated by 4 massive companies, the last thing we need as consumers is for one of the *world’s* largest companies to have a stake in the sector…
>with a range of highly sensitive cameras and sensors used to monitor which products they picked up while in store.
Surprising that The Guardian doesn’t read The Guardian – [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology)
TLDR: the highly sensitive cameras were just providing a video feed to thousands of staff in India and other similar countries who were being paid buttons to record on the system what people were buying – a modern Mechanical Turk.
I used to use them. Then I switched to Amazon Morrisons. I’m thinking of just doing directly from Morrisons.
They were always just an experiment to be fair and more about branding than anything else. I imagine they got a lot of data and research from this they will use or sell elsewhere