Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) did not waste time and has already opened a second till-less store in the UK.
Located in Wembley Park, London, the Amazon Fresh store is powered by Just Walk Out technology.
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It’s not too far from the first venue of this kind, unveiled in Ealing earlier this month, which sells ready meals, groceries and Amazon electronics.
It is a cash- and card-less shop, where customers connect to the shelves by logging into their Amazon account via smartphone.
Phase one of the rollout is understood to involve 25-30 sites in the UK.
Second Amazon Fresh store opens in Wembley Park
Presumably to stress-test the technology when thousands of footie fans descend on the shop to stock up on tinnies
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The same formula has already been launched in the US.
The ‘Just Walk Out’ technology uses "computer vision, deep learning algorithms, and sensor fusion", Amazon highlighted.
Amazon Fresh Stores UK is run by Matt Birch, formerly Sainsbury's director of commercial operations.
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