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That was the original idea, and that's what Amazon claimed, but IIRC they never got over 70% automated.

Phrased differently, 30% of all transactions were still entered by a human overseas watching cameras at the time they decided to pull the plug, years after the initial launch.



Interesting that they can automate some of the transactions and not others... Wonder what was special about those other 30%.

There was a 2 year period in which I bought lunch at an Amazon Go daily. I was naive to the magic so I thought it was the greatest innovation ever.




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