Alle Amazon Fresh Stores in Großbritannien schließen
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/23/all-amazon-fresh-stores-in-uk-to-close-whole-foods
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Alle Amazon Fresh Stores in Großbritannien schließen
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/23/all-amazon-fresh-stores-in-uk-to-close-whole-foods
Von a3poify
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An interesting experiment, but it always felt like more of a hassle to get my phone out at the start of the shopping trip to get in than to get it out at the end to pay at the till, for some reason.
Good. We need more independently owned shops and less marketplace consolidation by silicon valley tech giants.
I visited one of these at excel and I thought I did it right but found out I just shop lifted my lunch as it never charged me. It was a cool experiment but we seem to struggle with self service terminals, so this was a bit too futuristic
I’ve never heard of or seen these. Guessing it was a London thing.
Were those the ones that were supposed to use AI to check what you bought and bill you but it turned out to be underpaid overseas workers checking the cameras manually?
Our supermarket sector is already dominated by 4 massive companies, the last thing we need as consumers is for one of the *world’s* largest companies to have a stake in the sector…
>with a range of highly sensitive cameras and sensors used to monitor which products they picked up while in store.
Surprising that The Guardian doesn’t read The Guardian – [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology)
TLDR: the highly sensitive cameras were just providing a video feed to thousands of staff in India and other similar countries who were being paid buttons to record on the system what people were buying – a modern Mechanical Turk.
I used to use them. Then I switched to Amazon Morrisons. I’m thinking of just doing directly from Morrisons.
They were always just an experiment to be fair and more about branding than anything else. I imagine they got a lot of data and research from this they will use or sell elsewhere
u/AskGrok
Which of the stores closing will be converted to a Whole Foods?
That’s a crying shame as I get my daily meal deal there.
£3.60 for a better quality offering than Sainsbury’s and Tesco. I’m surprised they are closing as the products on shelves recently changed, which meant they have still been brokering deals for shelf space.
This makes me curious of who uses those scan and shop readers when they go into a supermarket.
My local Sainsbury’s has them. I never see them in use.
I saw a ad a while back and thought it never happened, ive never seen one of these anywhere.
How did they prevent people just stealing stuff?
„Amazon did not confirm how many staff would be affected by the closures“ – that’s easy, I guess the answer is: none. It’s all automated. Maybe a few hundred jobs lost in India.
But seriously, these stores were EXPENSIVE. Might be just my subjective feeling, but it felt much more expensive than Tesco, Aldi, Sainsbury’s.