Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
gizmodo.com
Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

(via https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/112202942593125987, archive: https://archive.is/VnqRZ)

surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive

even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It’d be swell if someone could go ahead and make an equal alternative to amazon. Y’know, doesn’t have to be perfect, just - y’know better people and such.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Better people wouldn’t be able to compete with the cutthroat business practices that put Amazon on top in the first place.

    • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      There are various European and Asian online stores competing with Amazon on national levels. Very few of them are relevant on a global scale though.

    • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Well we could always try buying locally again. Not that that’s ideal or cheaper all the time. But it helps local business owners instead of stockholders.