Amazon introduces “smart” shopping cart: they will scan and weigh tournafulla Solovyov
The largest retailer in e-commerce, Amazon has introduced its new development in the technology “Just Walk Out” – smart basket for shopping Carts Dash. They are available to buyers
the new Amazon store, which the company intends to open in Los Angeles until the end of 2020.
Action smart-baskets Dash Carts is based on the technology of cashless payment “Just Walk Out” (“Just go”), developed by the company specifically for the introduction of its own stores without
cashiers Amazon Go. Test a tryout of this technology began at the end of 2016, the first store of this format, which opened in Seattle (Washington), and lasted several months. In
over the next three years, the company has opened similar stores in Chicago, new York and San Francisco, and in February 2020 on Capitol hill in Seattle (USA) earned full-fledged Amazon.
Go Grocery with a usable area almost five times the size of standard stores Amazon Go, and a product range of 5,000 items.
The entrance to a store is available only to registered visitors who have received customer account with Amazon, and in front of the store they need to scan a QR code
generated by a special app on your smartphone. Move around the store and the account taken to them with goods shelf keep track of special cameras and sensors, and the total cost of the purchases
will be debited from client’s account in the company in automatic mode.
The first store that Amazon intends to equip the “smart” baskets for shopping Carts Dash, will become the outlet located in the California town of woodland hills (Woodland
Hills). It will not be equipped to format Amazon Go. But, according to the portal Business insider, this store will be equipped with the cash line, that buyers with “smart” carts can get around.
Smart Dash basket Carts are designed for purchases of small volume such that you can fit one or two bags. To use the basket also can only the owner of the account
Amazon and smartphone, and at the entrance to the store with these baskets you will need to scan a unique QR code, which will generate a app.
Dash Carts equipped with cameras and sensors on the base of computer vision technologies – they will track and determine the products the customer puts in the basket like the ones he decided not to buy
and takes from the recycle bin. Built into the basket of the scales needed to buy the weight of goods, and scanner coupons for automatic discounts are applied. On the display mounted on the front panel
baskets, displays the final cost of the hosted products, at the time when the buyer adds to the basket or takes a particular commodity, the value is adjusted in real
time. At the moment when the product is correctly identificireba, the device will beep. If necessary, re-identification of purchase (re-add in the basket) will be served
the light signal. When you add a number of products – mainly from the category of fresh products, the buyer will need to enter the display codes, and quantity.
The purchase amount will be debited at the exit of the buyer from the store with his card tied to your Amazon account, and a copy of the receipt will be sent to him via e-mail.
If the test is smart baskets are successful, the technology Amazon Dash Carts can then be implemented in almost any retail outlet.
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