Jeffrey Dustin
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc. wants to draw broader industry interest to technology it has developed for cashierless checkout in brick-and-mortar stores, a vice president said. Told.
In recent years, e-commerce companies have opened cashierless stores where cameras and sensors determine what shoppers have and charge after they leave.
Since 2020, we have sold these systems to airport food and retail markets, professional and university stadiums, and convention centers.
Vice President Dilip Kumar said late Wednesday that the company is looking to expand sales of the technology since moving its team to its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in August. .
“As part of AWS, we are exposed to a wide range of clients by definition,” he told Reuters in an interview at the cloud division’s annual Las Vegas conference.
“If we were completely focused on convenience and groceries, there would be no reason to consult a hospital,” he said.
Amazon has faced various technical challenges to eliminate face-to-face waiting times. Since we first teased the concept in 2016, it has yet to overthrow brick-and-mortar retail as some had predicted.
Kumar said the technology, which was unveiled earlier this year at the marketplace of Major League Baseball’s T-Mobile Park in Seattle, has seen sales double to triple that of previous stores.
In India, Amazon’s growing area, it has acquired another cashierless company called Watasere, he said.
TechCrunch reported in September that the Watasale founder had moved to the online retailer, though Amazon did not comment on the acquisition at the time.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin, Las Vegas; Editing by Howard Goller)
