Amazon to stop using "Just Walk Out" tech in supermarkets, 70% of transactions were human reviewed

You know Amazon's fancy grocery stores where you "Just Walk Out" with your items instead of scanning them? That's no longer a thing, Amazon's getting rid of it from stores and replacing it with Dash Carts, "a scanner and screen that's embedded in your shopping cart, allowing you to checkout as you shop" and self-checkout counters. It appears that the Just Walk Out technology didn't really work as "700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022". Those human reviewers being a team of 1,000 people in India who watched and labelled videos of people shopping to make sure the customers were billed correctly for the things they took off the shelf.


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