Amazon Go Store Opens in Seattle with No Cashiers on Store

In future, Amazon sees the store shopping with no cashiers, no registers and no cash needs.

The Amazon opened its Amazon Go concept to public this Monday in Seattle. This store's concept allows the customers to take milk, potato chips etc from the shelves and just walk away out of store. Amazon's latest technology allows the customers to pay after they leave.

Amazon employees have been testing the store, present at the bottom floor of Seattle's headquarter from the last one year. The latest technology uses the computer vision, machine-learning algorithms and sensors to find out what customer has grabbed from the store shelves.

In Amazon Go store. not everyone can purchase the goods. People must have one smartphone and a credit or debit card which is linked to be charged. Customer enter the shop by scanning the Amazon Go smartphone app at a turnstile, opening plastic doors. When customer grab a item from a store shelves, the item get added to the virtual cart. If it places back the item to a store shelves, item get removed from the virtual cart.

Families can shop together with only one smartphone app scanning everyone in. Anyone who will grab any item from a shelve, the item will added to the customer virtual cart who had scanned the smartphone to let that customer in to the store. Thus Amazon warned the customers to not help out strangers.

There is no hot coffee or hot food available in store but Microwave ovens are available to warm up.

Lisa Doyle, who visited the shop on Monday said, "It's such a weird experience, because you feel like you're stealing when you go out of the door".