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The cashless technology from Amazon Go can come to Whol Foods next year
Amazon could try to bring cashless technology to Whole Foods supermarkets in its Go commodity stores as early as next year, according to the New York Posts.
According to the New York Post sources, Amazon may be starting to implement technology in Whole Foods in the second quarter of 2021. Currently at more than 20 locations in Amazon Go's convenience store, this technology uses cameras, sensors and computer vision to enable customers to get their hands on the store and avoid cashier checkout.
The new technology is one of the two final projects which Jeff Wilke, CEO of the global consumer department of Amazon, focuses on before he retires at the beginning of next year. The New York Post source arises from the implementation.
Before opening to the public in 2018, Amazon Go stores started up in 2016 for Amazon employees. After Amazon acquired all foods in 2017, customers , employees and journalists questioned whether the technology would be integrated into the supermarket. Dilip Kumar told our sister site Recode in February that no plans were made to put it in Whole Foods for the time being.
It is convenient to promise casserole grocery stores: enter, purchase food and walk out. Although this model is nice, it's likely that this new technology will replace jobs with machines. After the United Food and Trade Workers Union had announced that it would begin selling this technology to retailers, it had criticized the tech giant, saying the cashless model would pose a direct threat to 16 millions US retail jobs and is part of a ruthless strategy aimed at eliminating as many good positions as possible.
The rumor was not commented on by Amazon.
