Articles about Amazon Go

Amazon closes another Go convenience store in downtown Seattle; location was second to open

Amazon closed another of its Amazon Go convenience stores in downtown Seattle, three months after it announced that eight of… Read More

Amazon closing eight Amazon Go convenience stores in latest tightening of its physical retail

Amazon announced Friday that it is permanently closing eight of its high-tech Amazon Go convenience stores, including two in Seattle.… Read More

Amazon moves physical retail tech teams into cloud division, looking to accelerate third-party adoption

Amazon is shifting tech teams for its physical stores from its consumer division to its Amazon Web Services cloud division,… Read More

Starbucks and Amazon open second ‘Pickup and Go’ joint retail location in New York

Starbucks and Amazon have teamed on their second “Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go” location in New York City. The physical… Read More

Inside Amazon’s first high-tech Go store in suburbia, where there’s more stuff and a made-to-order menu

Amazon Go is growing beyond its traditional urban footprint, ushering in a new era for the high-tech, physical convenience stores… Read More

‘SNL’ has a go at Amazon Go in spoof on how white and black shoppers may view ‘Just Walk Out’ tech

Are people really convinced that it’s safe to just grab and go from a cashierless Amazon Go store? Depends on… Read More

Amazon’s bizarre bazaar: Strange final chapter for tech giant’s first bricks-and-mortar bookstore

“Best Book Club Ever” read one sign inside Amazon Books at Seattle’s University Village this weekend. On the bookshelves below… Read More

Amazon and Starbucks plan to open two additional ‘Pickup and Go’ stores this year

Amazon and Starbucks plan to expand upon their physical retail partnership and open two more “Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go”… Read More

Amazon Go — to the suburbs: Company to try its high-tech convenience store outside urban core

Amazon Go is going where customers live, not just where they work. The high-tech convenience store model that Amazon first… Read More

Starbucks and Amazon are opening a store together in New York City, with more in the works

Two of Seattle’s retail icons are collaborating on a store for the first time. The first “Starbucks Pickup with Amazon… Read More

Amazon doesn’t rock, artists and others say, in call to reject palm-scanning tech at Red Rocks venue

“Put your hands in the air, wave ’em like you just don’t care!” someone said, somewhere, once. But musicians and… Read More

‘I got a beer in 8 seconds’: Testing Amazon’s cashierless tech at an NHL game inside Climate Pledge Arena

Grabbing a bite or a drink at a Seattle sporting event without waiting in line is now a reality. Amazon’s… Read More

Amazon Go app is checking out, as shoppers can now use company’s main app at all physical stores

The Amazon Go app is going away. In another move to streamline its shopping services and family of mobile apps,… Read More

Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location

Amazon’s newest physical grocery store opening in the Seattle area this week is unique as it will feature the company’s… Read More

Amazon will open another Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle at old Office Depot location

Amazon plans to open its seventh Amazon Go store location in Seattle, expanding its brick-and-mortar grocery footprint despite the ongoing… Read More

Pay with your palm? Amazon unveils biometric ID, touting convenience and testing customer trust

Amazon has developed a new biometric ID system that works by scanning the palms of participating customers, planning to ultimately… Read More

Testing Amazon Kitchen: Here’s our hot take on the tech giant’s first hot food bar at Amazon Go Grocery

Amazon does deliveries, cloud computing, voice technology, and e-readers pretty damn well. The company’s hot food game, though, could use… Read More

Amazon unveils its own smart grocery cart, in new effort to automate physical retail checkout

Can the company that popularized the online shopping cart reinvent the real thing? Amazon unveiled its first smart grocery cart… Read More

Amazon Go Grocery stores slated for Seattle area and Washington D.C., expanding retail footprint

Amazon is planning to open cashier-less “Go” grocery stores in Redmond, Wash., and Washington D.C., as part of a broader… Read More

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Protesters shatter Amazon Go windows in Seattle as outrage over Minneapolis man’s death spreads across country

Demonstrators broke the windows of an Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle during a protest Friday evening over the death… Read More

Amazon starts selling Amazon Go technology to other businesses

Amazon today unveiled a new business line, selling its “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology to other retailers. Amazon originally developed… Read More

Price analysis shows Amazon Go Grocery is already undercutting nearby retail rival

Amazon made headlines Tuesday with the debut of its newest cashierless grocery store concept in Seattle. The opening drew hundreds… Read More

A new Amazon mystery: Clues point to possible location of next grocery store in Seattle

With the opening of the first-ever Amazon Go Grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood the tech giant put to… Read More

Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines

Amazon Go is going full grocery. Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines,… Read More

New patent application points to development of palm scanning tech for Amazon Go stores

Amazon Go customers could someday enter the store with a simple wave of the hand, replacing today’s process of swiping… Read More

Amazon’s secretive new Seattle store reportedly part of push to expand ‘Go’ tech to bigger locations

After four years of silence, Amazon confirmed last month that the “Amazon Go team is running internal tests” at a… Read More

Internal email: Amazon exec Steve Kessel to leave after leading massive push into physical retail

Steve Kessel, the Amazon executive who oversaw the e-commerce giant’s landmark expansion into bricks-and-mortar retail, plans to leave the company… Read More

Amazon confirms its Amazon Go team is ‘running internal tests’ at secretive retail store in Seattle

Amazon finally revealed that it is working on a grocery concept at a prime retail location in Seattle’s popular Capitol… Read More

Amazon reportedly leases more than a dozen sites in Los Angeles for rapid grocery expansion

Amazon’s grocery push is kicking into high gear, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. WSJ reports… Read More

Report: Amazon Go cashierless store technology could be coming to airports and movie theaters

As it slowly rolls out new Amazon Go locations in Seattle and other cities, Amazon is reportedly eyeing other ways… Read More