The system is pretty straightforward: each item, in this case mostly clothing, gets an RFID tag that looks like a normal clothing tag. Customers come into the store, pick out what they want, and walk through an “exit gate” that scans the tags and tallies up the bill.
RFID protected bags 🔥🔥🔥
Note as well sometimes these scanners miss things even when not abused. E.g. I checked out at a sporting goods store where you dump all your purchases in a box which is then scanned. Got home and noticed I was not charged for a bicycle lock. It had its packaging but I wonder if someone inadvertenly bent the rfid chip somehow.
We’ll probably see people walking around Amazon shops bending the rfIDs back and forth as they shop to see if they can kill the tag. Some thieves will probably carry around hole punchers as well.
carries RFID shielded bag
Didn’t walmart try this years ago?
I’m a bit baffled that #Amazon would give up the opportunity to scan faces. If you have a married couple with joint card account, Amazon wouldn’t know which one of them made the purchase without cameras.
Doesn’t this also mean they need a human to monitor for people who don’t scan their payment card?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It built a system that uses radio-frequency identification, known as RFID, to track your purchases as you leave the store.
Customers come into the store, pick out what they want, and walk through an “exit gate” that scans the tags and tallies up the bill.
RFID tags are a longtime staple of the people- and thing-tracking industries: they’re a handy way to quickly check inventory in a warehouse, keep your luggage from getting lost, and even get you into Disney World.
It may not feel quite as cool to go through a scanner before you leave as it does to just walk out of the building, but the pitch for Amazon here is that an RFID system will be drastically easier for companies to implement.
Amazon says its Just Walk Out testing has shown huge increases in customer traffic thanks to the shorter lines and many more transactions because the process is so simple.
Amazon itself may be pulling back on physical retail stores, but it’s clearly still invested in real-world shopping logistics problems.
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Until I can use a full size grocery cart, it’s a non starter. Being only able to use that small little thing is worthless unless you do you shopping twice a week.
In the Suburbs or Rural areas sure, but in cities without cars or where you park a long way away from home nobody is filling up a cart. This makes sense for the latter.
I mean then they should place them there. Springfield, VA ain’t exactly Urban 🤷♂️
