March 3, 20223 yr Author On 1/21/2021 at 2:27 PM, Guest jmecklenborg said: I seem to recall that the Ohio Lottery was on its own completely independent payment system back in the 80s. I saw recently that this is still the case - if you buy items at a store AND lotto tickets with a credit card, you have to run the same card on two different card readers, one of them being permanently hooked up to the lottery. I think this had more to do with the fact that up until 2017, you could not buy Ohio Lottery tickets using a credit card. So if you bought groceries on a credit card you would need to do a separate debit transaction for lottery tickets, money orders, Western Union, or other things that you couldn't put on a credit card.
March 3, 20223 yr Author Quote Amazon kills planned Cincinnati retail store “We’ve decided to close our Amazon 4-star, Books, and Pop Up stores, and focus more on our Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market, Amazon Go and Amazon Style stores and our Just Walk Out technology," an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement. It looks like Amazon Go is up to 24 locations across the U.S. The closest city with them is Chicago, which has five. I'm a bit surprised that it hasn't rolled out even more widely, as I would have expected Amazon to start incorporating this concept into Whole Foods stores and/or licensing the technology to other grocery/convenience store chains.
March 8, 20223 yr Author Amazon has also rolled out a prototype Whole Foods store in the DC area with their "Just Walk Out" technology, and plans to roll out a second in LA later this year: Quote For the next 30 minutes, I shopped. I picked up a bag of cauliflower florets, grapefruit sparkling water, a carton of strawberries and a package of organic chicken sausages. Cameras and sensors recorded each of my moves, creating a virtual shopping cart for me in real time. Then I simply walked out, no cashier necessary. Whole Foods — or rather Amazon — would bill my account later. [...] For a long time, Amazon made only small steps toward putting its mark on the more than 500 Whole Foods stores in the United States and Britain. The main evidence of change were the discounts and free home delivery for Amazon Prime members. But this 21,000-square-foot Whole Foods just north of Georgetown has catapulted Amazon’s involvement forward. Along with another prototype Whole Foods store, which will open in Los Angeles this year, Amazon designed my local grocer to be almost completely run by tracking and robotic tools for the first time.
March 8, 20223 yr Oh geez that whole foods is right on the main drag wisconsin ave, just above georgetown. we were just there last week. i would have liked to check that just walk out tech out.
April 3, 20241 yr Author I was not expecting this... Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. [...] 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. The article mentions that the "Just Walk Out" technology will still be used at Amazon Go stores and some other locations, but will mostly be phased out of their Amazon Fresh grocery store locations.
April 3, 20241 yr I love how Tech's answer to everything is "Have people from India do it" then society wonders why our birthrate is nothing whereas theirs is sky high.
April 3, 20241 yr Oh and in the 5 years since this thread originated FAANG has evolved into the Cheech-and-Chong-friendly MAAAN (Meta, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Netflix)
April 3, 20241 yr This "Just Walk Out" bulls**t is way out of left field. Amazon completely misrepresented themselves with those grocery stores and their technologies.
April 3, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, taestell said: I was not expecting this... Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. [...] 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. The article mentions that the "Just Walk Out" technology will still be used at Amazon Go stores and some other locations, but will mostly be phased out of their Amazon Fresh grocery store locations. I used one in London in December--it was quite convenient at least in the small "Go" format.
April 3, 20241 yr Author I think, much like autonomous vehicle technology, the Just Walk Out technology didn't improve at the speed they were expecting. If only 5% of orders needed to be manually reviewed, that would be great, but it never got that good. Smaller orders at Amazon Go stores (people grabbing less 2 or 3 items) probably worked much better than people loading up an entire cart full of groceries at an Amazon Fresh store, which would explain why they're killing it only at the larger grocery stores.
June 6, 20241 yr inevitable and disturbing — Want to Pay Cash? That’ll Cost You Extra Story by Oyin Adedoyin … Paying with cash used to be a way to get a discount. These days it can often cost an extra $1 to $6—the sort of transaction fees once limited to swiping a credit card or using an out-of-network ATM. more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/want-to-pay-cash-that-ll-cost-you-extra/ar-BB1nJRdo
June 6, 20241 yr It's similar to going to a dealership to buy a car. Now they give you a better sale price if you finance the vehicle instead of paying cash.
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