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Amazon Plans Chainwide Rollout of Palm-Based Payments at Whole Foods

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Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion.

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Scenes from a Supermarket

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There’s a scene I particularly like where Winger, a harried mother of two, is in the checkout line at the supermarket and finds she doesn’t have enough money to pay for all her groceries, and it’s a perfect example of how not to provide good customer service.

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Scenes from a Supermarket

Retail TouchPoints

There’s a scene I particularly like where Winger, a harried mother of two, is in the checkout line at the supermarket and finds she doesn’t have enough money to pay for all her groceries, and it’s a perfect example of how not to provide good customer service.

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How to Design Your Retail Space With Security in Mind

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Every retail store has unique property characteristics that should be taken into consideration when deciding on physical security — one of which includes where your store is located. You should also use cameras to see what’s occurring at the point of sale with a clear view of the cash register or tablet, the cashier and the customer.

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Amazon Opens New Go Store Despite Announced Pause in Grocery Expansion

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Amazon has opened a new Amazon Go store in the Tacoma suburb of Puyallup, Wash., according to reporting in Supermarket News and other outlets. 26, 2023, comes despite Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s February 2023 announcement that the retailer would halt expansion of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store footprints.

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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

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Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports.

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Aldi Deploys Computer Vision-Enabled Cashierless Checkout at Chicago-Area Store

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supermarket with cashier-free checkout technology powered by computer vision. It’s exciting to see a checkout-free capability live in one of our stores,” said Eric Traxler, VP of IT at Aldi in a statement. Amazon , one of the pioneers of cashierless solutions, has been moving away from deployments in supermarkets.

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