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Amazon gives up on no-checkout shopping in its grocery stores


Fresh stores will focus on smart shopping carts, instead.

Amazon has decided to give up on its Just Walk Out program that lets customers leave its brick-and-mortar grocery stores without a formal checkout process. Amazon hasn’t managed to get a handle on in-person retail despite buying the upscale, popular Whole Foods chain back in 2017. Amazon said in September that it was scaling that back in favor of using radio-frequency identification, or RFID, scanners to keep track of customer purchases.

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