Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future<br />The technology inside Amazon’s new convenience store, opening Monday in downtown Seattle,<br />enables a shopping experience like no other — including no checkout lines.<br />The only sign of the technology that makes this possible floats above the store<br />shelves — arrays of small cameras, hundreds of them throughout the store.<br />Translation: Amazon’s technology can see and identify every item in the store,<br />without attaching a special chip to every can of soup and bag of trail mix.<br />Store employees mill about ready to help customers find items, and there is a kitchen next door with chefs preparing meals for sale in the store.<br />At Amazon Go, checking out feels like — there’s no other way to put it — shoplifting.<br />SEATTLE — The first clue that there’s something unusual about Amazon’s store of the future hits you right at the front door.
