Amazon scaling back on Just Walk Out store tech

[Jan]

Amazon kills cashierless grocery checkouts

Amazon.com Inc. is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out system from grocery stores, a retreat from an ambitious technology designed to let shoppers skip the line.

Amazon will pull the system as it remodels existing Fresh grocery stores and won’t feature it in new locations that will start opening later this year, an Amazon spokesperson said.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

guess people found ways around the technology, or the shoplifting rate exploded.

imagine the technology came here,

 

[My_King]

guess people found ways around the technology, or the shoplifting rate exploded.

imagine the technology came here,

Ke repeat July riots

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Ke repeat July riots

only without the smart tech, as those fancy cameras sitting in a scrapyard now.
just like Etolls (that somehow still standing) when Manhole covers get stolen all the time.

 

[konfab]

I can't believe you guys missed the best part about this:

1. The company used remote cashiers based in India to check what customers were buying and leaving stores with.
2. These included over 1,000 workers in India, The Information reported, as the work of cashiers was outsourced to India.
3. The company undercut local jobs and chose low paid workers in India.
4. Amazon has decided to do away with the Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores and said that it was getting to be too time-consuming.
5. The report claimed that outsourced workers in India took hours to compile the data they tracked which was then used to generate receipts that customers would receive much later.
   

https://www.hindustantimes.com/busi...an-workers-not-ai-report-101712125289458.html

There was no AI. It was hundreds of Indian wagies watching cameras.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

There was no AI. It was hundreds of Indian wagies watching cameras.

what a joke, so when AI fails, India does the job manually?

 

[Nom Chompsky]

I can't believe you guys missed the best part about this:



https://www.hindustantimes.com/busi...an-workers-not-ai-report-101712125289458.html

There was no AI. It was hundreds of Indian wagies watching cameras.

And people wonder why Big Tech is under heavy scrutiny in the US. Hollowing out communities in the US all in the pursuit of making gigantic profits.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

And people wonder why Big Tech is under heavy scrutiny in the US. Hollowing out communities in the US all in the pursuit of making gigantic profits.

quite surprising to me, they got a fancy cameras and algorithms and stuff,
and they instead turn to some poor Indians to manually check people walking out with stuff.

is Big tech a shell game, or does it actually come up with new stuff that improves our lives.

 

[konfab]

And people wonder why Big Tech is under heavy scrutiny in the US. Hollowing out communities in the US all in the pursuit of making gigantic profits.

Making something more efficient is fine. And actually good in the long run, even if it comes at the cost of some jobs. No-one would think it would be sensible to ban heavy earth machinery and shovels to create jobs.

What these Big Tech are doing is more akin to fraud as they are not making things more efficient. Employing hundreds of Indians is not cheaper than employing 1 wagie at a shop to be a cashier, and that experience benefit of not having to wait in line is simply not worth the premium.

The logical way that I think will be the future is shops will simply be automatic warehouses that either package up groceries for delivery or collection.

 

[maeztro]

I can't believe you guys missed the best part about this:



https://www.hindustantimes.com/busi...an-workers-not-ai-report-101712125289458.html

There was no AI. It was hundreds of Indian wagies watching cameras.

The mechanical Turk always has a human inside. Cruise's “self-driving” taxis replaced each low-waged driver with 1.5 high-waged technical robot supervisors: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-p...in-the-loop-monkey-in-the-middle-14e72bd46b7a

See also https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

 

[G.A.S]

If they tried it here, would it about as effective as e-toll?

 

[VooDooC]

I can't believe you guys missed the best part about this:



https://www.hindustantimes.com/busi...an-workers-not-ai-report-101712125289458.html

There was no AI. It was hundreds of Indian wagies watching cameras.

So AI is just Another Indian?

 

[SauRoNZA]

If they tried it here, would it about as effective as e-toll?

I believe Shoprite X does this locally with their staff already and is considering taking it further with the populace at large.

 

[wizardofid]

Ke repeat July riots

Riots ???????? looting spree, disguised as riots......