Amazon to Introduce Cashierless Technology ‘Just Walk Out’ to Supermarkets

Amazon is bringing its cashierless technology, ‘Just Walk Out’, to two Whole Foods locations. One store will be located in the Glover Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and the other in Sherman Oaks, California.

The idea of Amazon’s cashierless technology comes in through a series of sensors and cameras that detect which item you picked from the store.

At the upcoming Whole Foods locations, shoppers can either scan a QR code on the Whole Foods or Amazon app, insert a credit or debit card linked to their Amazon

account or place their palm over the company’s palm-scanning payment system, called Amazon One, if they choose to skip the checkout process when they enter the store. As for the customers who don’t want to use the cashierless technology service, they can only ring their items using the self-checkout process or at the customer service booth.

Just Walk Out originally debuted in small Amazon Go convenience stores, before the company scaled it up to work in bigger and bigger grocery stores.