![]() ![]() Once inside the store, customers can shop like normal. Each option will open the Just Walk Out gates. No word yet on where else the Dash Cart will be available, beyond the Woodland Hills location, and Amazon declined to say whether the cart would be sold to other retailers.Customers who opt for Just Walk Out shopping can enter the store in three ways: They can scan the QR code in their Amazon app, use Amazon One to scan their palm, or insert a credit or debit card linked to their Amazon account. No official name has been publicized for the new chain, but some Amazon paperwork for a liquor license in Irvine included the name " Amazon Fresh." In addition to Woodland Hills, Amazon has confirmed five more locations for its new grocery chain: Irvine and North Hollywood, in California, and Schaumburg, Naperville and Oaklawn in Illinois. A similar effort to remove the grocery checkout experience was created by the chain Stop & Shop nearly a decade ago called "Scan It!," which allows customers to scan, bag and checkout their items using their phones. Amazon has also started to market its Amazon Go tech to other merchants. ![]() Watch this: Inside Amazon's brand-new cashierless grocery storeĬompeting retailers have made efforts to add more tech, like touch-free and cashierless checkout, into their stores, especially after Amazon Go was introduced. Another effort Amazon did to boost traffic into Whole Foods was offering discounts for Amazon Prime members that perk hasn't been announced yet for Woodland Hills, but it may be coming. That could work, especially if the smart cart is able to cut time from grocery visits. Without getting into specifics, Kumar said the intention is to keep developing new concepts that save customers time and can fit easily into their habits without forcing them to learn new ones, which are both features of Amazon Go.ĭash Cart is likely one way Amazon will try to draw customers into its new supermarket chain and away from their regular grocer. There's been plenty of speculation that Amazon will add similar hardware into Whole Foods, which it purchased in 2017, but that has yet to happen. It introduced Amazon Go in 2016 and Amazon Go Grocery, a larger store format that includes fresh produce, in February. ![]() The new shopping cart, which Kumar says is built sturdy enough to prevent those annoying shaky and off-balance wheels, is part of Amazon's continued work to put its techie signature on the $1.2 trillion US grocery market. ![]()
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