Justin Fox, Columnist

When the Checkout Lines Go Away

In Amazon Go's future, maybe cashiers lose their jobs, or maybe their jobs evolve to more than making change.

December 6, 2016 at 6:04 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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Have you watched that new video of Amazon Go, the store in test mode in Seattle where you just pick up stuff (prepared food and drinks, mostly) and walk out? I have, again and again. It's pretty hypnotic, especially with the sound off.