Buying one item at a grocery store with a self checkout makes the store feel like a giant vending machine to me
@kistaro I've shopped in an Amazon Go store once so far. You scan a bar code when you enter and that's it. Somehow everythjng you pull from the shelves and add to your bag is accounted and added to your cart, and checked out when you leave.
It makes it feel a bit like shoplifting except with also paying. :-P
@emanate
In which Amazon works even harder to separate the dopamine hit of "receive item" from the regret of "lost money". Online shopping with stored credit card data is already pretty abstract but this makes the "item get!" even more immediate and the "agree to pay money" part even less psychologically present. Brilliant design, in its amoral capitalist way.
@emanate
I remember reading articles that it's a zillion cameras and some weight sensors on the shelves? Including face recognition, but also heat tracking identifying you as an individual blob of infrared output moving through the store when your face is obscured.
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@typhlosion @kistaro @emanate Dunno if that'd work, pretty sure it's all rfid tags n the goods...plus it's actually still staffed.