Amazon’s automated grocery store of the future opens to public

A customer walks out of the Amazon Go store, without needing to pay at a cash register due to cameras, sensors and other technology that track goods that shoppers remove from shelves and bill them automatically after they leave, in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 18, 2018. Photo taken January 18, 2018. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dastin

SEATTLE: Amazon.com Inc will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Jan 22 after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail. 

The Seattle store, known as Amazon Go, relies on cameras and sensors to track what shoppers remove from the shelves, and what they put back. Cash registers and checkout lines become superfluous – customers are billed after leaving the store using credit cards on file.