Amazon gives up on no-checkout shopping in its grocery stores
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An Amazon Dash Cart in Whole Foods. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images Amazon has decided to give up on its Just Walk Out program that lets customers leave its brick-and-mortar grocery stores without a formal checkout process. Instead, it's switching fully to Dash Carts," where customers scan products as they toss them in their cart.
That's according to The Information, which reports that the company is pulling Just Walk Out from all larger stores where the system is in place and sprucing up the stores across the board" as it prepares to expand Amazon Fresh locations later this year. Amazon will keep using it in smaller corner stores, though.
Amazon hasn't managed to get a handle on in-person retail despite buying the upscale, popular Whole Foods chain back in 2017. Over the years, the online shopping...