Amazon opened its first cashier-less store in December 2016 which allows customers to enter the store by scanning a barcode on their smartphone app. From there, Amazon tracks the customer as they move around the store, and it bills items they take off the shelves directly to the account that was used to scan in, bypassing the need for a check-out cashier or counter. Currently, Amazon Go has 21 stores in four locations: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle.
One of the stores in Seattle was reportedly not spared from the onslaught of protesters who swooped on the chaos created by the “Black Lives Matter” protests that swept across the US in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by the police. A report on Reddit claims the Amazon Store was attacked by protesters who carted away several items. But it turned out the scanning system installed in the store isn’t just about scanning barcodes.
The protesters were reportedly automatically billed for the items they looted. The report offered no further details which make this likely a joke. Since the protesters may have bypassed the aspect of scanning the QR code on their Amazon app by jumping over the barrier, we can’t figure how they were automatically billed. Nah, technology hasn’t been deployed up to that extent currently.
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