Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

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.

  • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    I don’t know about Walmart but I heard Target will facial recognize you and deliberately wait across multiple trips until you have stolen enough to make it grand theft before taking action.

    • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      Is that tracking distributed across stores or do I have license to steal $9999 from each one?

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        Probably the amount stolen within the same state. But once you’re committing crimes across state lines, you’ve got bigger problems on your hands.

        And yes, they definitely share data across their whole company.

    • Neondragon25@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      I did Target security for a few months. Yes they build cases against people until it’s criminal action. It’s also not subject to one store. Rather I could just type in descriptions of people (apparent age, height, skin tone, etc) and it would search those descriptions. I could then match the person and add it to the running total. When I left I heard that some markets were rolling out an AI to track people. I can answer any questions if there’s anyone who want to know more.