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Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Just because it was a failure doesn't make it a con.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

No, what makes it a con is that it was purported to be automated, but the automation was a failure and had to be done by humans almost 3/4 of the time.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

No, that makes it a failure.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Just because it was a failure doesn’t make it a con.

On its own a failure is not a con. The con is to publicly pretend that the failure is not there.

And Amazon is clearly doing the later - read the quote from the spokesperson in the article, it boils down to "The system is automated! «Chrust us lol». The human labour there is just, for, uh... improvements!" Yeah, sure, and the 1770 machine is totally automated too, the chess player there is just the maintenance worker /s

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