Amazon physical store without a checkout will open on Monday

Amazon’s physical store without a checkout will open Monday. The company behind the web store announced the small supermarket with sensors more than a year ago and now the technology is advanced enough to open its first store.

The first Amazon Go store is located at Amazon’s headquarters in the American city of Seattle, Recode writes. The site visited the physical store last week. Sensors monitor which customers come in, what they grab and then pay automatically, so customers can get out again faster.

Those sensors are in the ceiling. In addition to regular cameras, there are also sensors for estimating depth. Checkout is done via an Amazon Go app for smartphones, to which customers link a payment method. Whoever enters has to scan the app when entering a gate.

There are people working at the store. Someone is working to welcome people into the store and someone is also there to check the identities of some customers when they want to buy alcohol and people turned out to be working in a kitchen. The physical store offers food and drinks.

Amazon presented the concept in December 2016. It is unknown if and when the American company plans to use the technology in more stores.