Amazon launches a physical grocery store where you just take things from the shelves and walk out

The evolving merger of physical retailing and online commerce took another step forward today, with Amazon’s announcement of the launch of its Amazon Go store. “If it works as advertised, it’s definitely a breakthrough,” Gartner Research VP Mark Hung told me. The 1800-square-foot facility, located at the corner of 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street in Seattle and oriented around meal preparation, requires that the customer have a supported smartphone, an Amazon account, and the fr[...]

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