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.

  • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    156•1 year ago

    According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales.

    Lmao.

    • Eager EagleEnglish
      66•1 year ago

      idk…

      According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales. Amazon called this characterization inaccurate, and disputes how many purchases require reviews.

      if Amazon wasn’t the source of this number, where is it coming from?

      • @schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17•1 year ago

        Amazon was using people to train the model, so at the starts it would be 100%, but eventually the goal would be to get near zero, maybe the average was 70% but when the ended it was near 40%?

      • @errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        If the numbers don’t match your narrative, just make them up! That’s the Gizmodo way.

      • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Probably the ‘1000 people in india’ reviewing that footage.

        The rest of the articles linked in the above one are pay walled and I don’t care enough to dig further.

    • @pedroapero@lemmy.mlEnglish
      25•1 year ago

      This feels so creepy to, being watched spending your money by slaves on the other side of the globe, and Amazon pretending it to be automated !

    • @Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I sat in front of one of these ideas at an airport. People are just dumb. They couldn’t figure out how to get into the store. They didn’t understand how to pay by just leaving.

      • @DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.mlEnglish
        37•1 year ago

        Never blame people for an issue with a system. If you have to blame the people then just admit your system is shit. It’s called idiot proofing and when theirs a bigger idiot proof it some more.

        • @BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          14•1 year ago

          I’ve said the same elsewhere, and the idiots here downvote to oblivion.

          It’s so weird. This is a basic rule of building anything that engages with the public. How can anyone assume that everyone will simply “get” how an interface works?