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No Cashier Required

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Amazon Go Grocery opened its first full-sized, cashierless grocery store in Seattle.
A phone app makes grocery shopping a cashless chore.
Lawmakers and others say these stores discriminate against some shoppers.

Amazon has opened a full-sized supermarket where customers just grab what they want to buy and leave.
Umm…wait a minute. Doesn't that leave something out of the equation?
Nope. Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, Washington, is a cashierless supermarket. Its shoppers don't ever have to
wait in line or open their wallets. How does it work? Shoppers scan a smartphone app to enter the store. Then
cameras and sensors track what they take off the shelves. After a shopper leaves, the items are charged to an
Amazon account. Families can even shop together; anything a family member takes off the shelf will be charged
to the person who signed them in. (Amazon warns anyone who grabs an item for a stranger will be charged for
that item.)
Some shoppers will be familiar with cashierless markets already: Amazon Go Grocery is a much larger version of
the company's chain of 25 Amazon Go convenience stores.