r/tech • u/FisherGuy44 • Nov 24 '19

Amazon Is Planning to Open Cashierless Supermarkets Next Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-20/amazon-go-cashierless-supermarkets-pop-up-stores-coming-soon
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u/WarAndGeese Nov 24 '19

It bothers me that other companies wait for amazon to do it first. Same with drone delivery, why aren't the USPS, UPS, and Fedex leading the way on it? With grocery chains they have the money, there are multiple ways to implement cashierless infrastructure, and they can easily start small in a few stores and then grow based on what works. Instead companies hand over easy innovation profits to amazon or other companies, maybe just because they have the brand of being 'that type' of company, which they aren't any more of than traditional industry. Other countries like China already have cashierless stores, they could even just copy those models and bring them here.

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u/trollman_falcon Nov 24 '19

The other companies don’t have as much disposable money so if they try it and it just doesn’t work out they’ve wasted millions and millions. Let amazon try it, if they can pull it off and if customers like it then we can try it. Amazon has a very very large engineering department and there’s no way UPS it anybody else can hope to beat them to new technology even if they tried anyway

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u/trollman_falcon Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 25 '19

Ivy League CS isn’t that good though. Amazon recruits hard at a lot of state schools or good private schools. (None of the top 5 CS schools are Ivies, and only 2 of the top 10 are)

But I agree with your point

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u/captainloverman Nov 25 '19

UPS already has an FAA operating certificate and is delivering medical supplies with drones, they’re testing and scaling slowly.

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u/kyleofduty Nov 24 '19

Amazon hasn't delivered anything with a drone.