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Amazon said that it will open "Amazon's first grocery store" in

Woodland Hills, California in 2020, per CNET. This follows


March reports that Amazon was looking to open several grocery stores
in the US that would be separate from Whole Foods, which
it acquired for $13.7 billion in June 2017, but it's only confirmed the
Los Angeles-area location for now.

Business Insider Intelligence

Few details are known about Amazon's new grocery play, but the
company did note that the store won't deploy the autonomous
checkout technology it uses in its Go stores. The technology uses
cameras and sensors to track what items consumers pick up so that
they can just leave with their items rather than stopping to physically
check out.

Shoppers at the 18 Amazon Go stores scan an app to enter and are


charged from their account once they exit, creating a fast and
attractive shopping experience that Amazon might eventually want to
bring to its new grocery stores. Amazon may be choosing not to
implement Go technology at its new grocery store because
autonomous checkout technology is difficult to scale, and Amazon is
yet to deploy it in a store larger than a traditional convenience store
format.

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