Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I don’t know where you live, but I’ve been in many Walmarts in the U.S. and they have private security who are never posted at the exit that I’ve ever seen. Mostly they just sit in an office and watch security cameras.

      • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’ve definitely seen actual cops standing at the front of the store. They’re also there every day and park their cars up front in the fire lane.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Maybe you’ve seen it, but it’s not common in my experience.

          I just traveled across four states and, because of the bad weather, we stopped at Walmarts along the way so my elderly mother could walk around and stretch her legs.

          Not one cop.

          • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            I think it’s something they do or have done around the holidays when it’s very busy. They might be hiring off duty cops and having them wear their uniform.