Facing Mounting Regulatory Pressures, Amazon Go Will Accept Cash Payments
The whole point of the Amazon Go store was to create a frictionless retail experience where you could walk in, grab what you want, and walk out, paying automatically with […]
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Here is a List of Cashierless Tech Companies Gunning for Amazon Go
Bloomberg has a story up today about the Portugal-based startup, Sensei, titled “Amazon Go Faces Unlikely Challenge From Checkout-Free Startup.” The headline caught my eye because it isn’t unlikely at […]
Walmart Tries to Challenge Amazon’s Grocery Supremacy through Voice Ordering
I’m not one to get excited about sporting rivalries, but I do get excited about grocery rivalries. And Amazon V. Walmart is shaking out to be the matchup of the decade. Today […]
Video: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Visits Singapore to Talk AI With Inventors of the Rotimatic
Back when I worked at Gigaom, every year we’d invite Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on stage at our big cloud computing conference and interview him about the future of the […]
San Francisco Targets Amazon Go with Cashless Retail Ban, Third Region to Do So
Amazon may have to put the brakes on the aggressive rollout of its automated Amazon Go stores, as more local governments are proposing bans on cashless brick-and-mortar retail operations. San […]
With Whole Foods Debut, Amazon Meal Kits Are Just Getting Warmed Up
It was no real surprise to read that Amazon brand meal kits are surfacing in select Whole Foods. I was honestly wondering what was taking Bezos and co. so long to […]
Amazon Closing All Its Pop-Up Stores in Whole Foods and Elsewhere
Amazon will close all 87 of its pop-up stores in the U.S., including those nestled inside Whole Foods, by the end of April, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. These […]
Will Your Amazon Retrieval Robot Pick Up Your Groceries from the Amazon Store?
There’s a scene in Being John Malkovich where the titular character crawls through a portal inside his own head. The result is a crazy world filled with “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich” […]
Editor Roundtable Podcast: Forget Delivery Bots, Amazon Wants You to Keep a Robot in Your Garage
Gotta give credit where credit is due: Amazon sure has lots of ideas about how to get more stuff to your house. While everyone thought Amazon was all about about […]
RIP, Plastic Amazon Dash Buttons
So long, li’l Dash button, your one-press re-ordering is no longer needed, and Amazon has stopped selling you (hat tip to CNet). You’ll now join other endeavors Amazon pulled the […]
Newsletter: Amazon’s Retrieval Robot, Netflix for Food Delivery & Food Robot Slack Chat
This is the web version of our newsletter. Subscribe to get the latest food tech news delivered to your inbox! One of the reasons to love working at The Spoon […]
Amazon Patents Retrieval Robot That Would Fetch Your Deliveries
Gotta give it to Amazon: they never stop thinking of ways to get stuff to your house. We uncovered the latest example of that in a just-issued patent for what […]
