@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Go and the Future of Shopping:

The only issue I see with something like this is now you'll hire security to confirm purchases as people are entering / leaving.

Should be less staff over all, but a bit more police state shopping.

The companies who start moving in this direction are not the same ones who will treat their customers like criminals over the possibility that one item didn't get rung up.

I have worked on projects to try and do warehouses this way, but time and time again, the RFID ends up being just too expensive per tag to make it worth it. We already have the technology to fill a cart with items then as a customer walks out, a gateway over the door can count it all, and bill them. I am betting Amazon has just found a way to bring cost down slightly on existing technology.