Mar 04
My Husband Of 26 Years Died. I Shocked Myself By Falling In Love Again Just Months Later.
Posted in: Today's Chili“I mentioned the possibility of the ‘L’ word when describing [Steve] to my best friend. … She was aghast.”
Mar 04
A proposal to build a nearly 500-mile-long stretch of transmission line in Nevada has been further delayed due to the discovery of possible fossil deposits in its path.
Mar 04
Henry Kissinger, the Man Who Nearly Started WWIII, Is Making Bonkers Predictions About How ChatGPT Will Upend Reality
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Nothing quite screams “foremost authority on generative article intelligence” like a 99 year-old-German man who nearly ushered in a global nuclear war over a game of geopolitical chicken.
Mar 04
This Was The Most Ridiculous Part Of The Supreme Court Debate On Student Loan Relief
Posted in: Today's ChiliQuestions about the fairness of Biden’s plan underscore the big problems with conservatives’ new favorite doctrine.
Mar 04
From early Apple models to Ataris to Commodores and early IBM PCs, we here at Gizmodo tend to think there’s nothing cooler than old computers. Rocky Bergen, a visual artist from Canada, has dedicated years creating paper replicas of them. He manages to work up visceral recreations of retro hardware that look almost…
Mar 04
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A guy embezzled nearly $9 million by convincing investors he was turning cow poop into green energy—and then not building any of the machines at all.
Mar 04
Republican Spencer Cox said he supports the measure that would mean hospitals are the only places where abortions can be provided in the state.
Mar 04
Since taking office, Joe Biden has made it known that he’s going to take cybercrime seriously. It’s not the case that Biden is the world’s most tech-savvy octonarian, rather, he’s simply responding to security challenges that have developed on his watch—most notably a string of increasingly destructive cyberattacks…
Mar 04
Pamplona Mayor Janice Degamo called for justice in the wake of the attack that killed her husband, Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo, on Saturday.
Mar 04
Amazon is closing down two cashierless Go stores in New York City, two in Seattle and four in San Francisco on April 1st, according to GeekWire. The e-retail giant made the announcement on the same day it admitted that it’s pausing construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia as it reassesses its office needs in the face of more and more people preferring to work remotely. As Bloomberg notes, these are but Amazon’s latest cost-cutting moves amidst slowing sales growth. In January, the company expanded its planned job cuts from 10,000 to 18,000 roles, with the layoffs since then mostly impacting personnel from its retail and recruiting divisions.
Company spokesperson Jessica Martin told the publications in a statement: “Like any physical retailer, we periodically assess our portfolio of stores and make optimization decisions along the way. We remain committed to the Amazon Go format, operate more than 20 Amazon Go stores across the US and will continue to learn which locations and features resonate most with customers.”
The internet retail titan’s Go stores were designed to be high-tech shops equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect when products are taken and returned to shelves. Customers can grab any item they want, which will be added to their virtual cart for online payment, and then walk out of the store without having to pass by a cashier.
While Amazon still has over 20 Go stores in the country, it has long struggled to conquer the physical retail space and has been changing up strategies every so often. It used to have 87 retail pop-up kiosks across the US, but the company shut them down before the pandemic hit. And in 2022, Amazon closed down all 68 of its physical bookstores, pop-up locations and 4-star shops in the US and UK. Just this February, though, CEO Andy Jassy said the company plans to go big on its brick-and-mortar grocery store business. He told the Financial Times: “We’re hopeful that in 2023, we have a format that we want to go big on, on the physical side.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/amazon-shutting-down-eight-cashierless-go-stores-100102563.html?src=rss
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