Amazon reportedly closer to rolling out its high-tech grocery store concept
Amazon's checkout-free retail format, Amazon Go, is almost ready to make its prime time debut.
The concept premiered last December, in Seattle, but is still open only to employees of the online giant. It was supposed to open to the public shortly afterwards, but the opening was postponed due to reported glitches with the store's "just walk out" technology. But according to a report by Bloomberg, the Amazon Go team has worked out most of the glitches.
And in a sign that the concept is getting ready for a roll out, hiring for the Amazon Go team has shifted from engineers and research scientists needed to perfect the platform to construction managers and marketers who would build and promote the stores to consumers, Bloomberg said.
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The concept premiered last December, in Seattle, but is still open only to employees of the online giant. It was supposed to open to the public shortly afterwards, but the opening was postponed due to reported glitches with the store's "just walk out" technology. But according to a report by Bloomberg, the Amazon Go team has worked out most of the glitches.
And in a sign that the concept is getting ready for a roll out, hiring for the Amazon Go team has shifted from engineers and research scientists needed to perfect the platform to construction managers and marketers who would build and promote the stores to consumers, Bloomberg said.
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