Oct 20, 2021 13:00:00

Amazon has the ambition to partner with Starbucks to create a 'coffee shop with no cashier payments'

Amazon, a major e-commerce company, is

developing a physical store 'Amazon Go ' that has introduced cash-free payment, and is also providing a similar cash-free payment system to retail stores other than Amazon as 'Just Walk Out'. Meanwhile, it was reported that Starbucks, a global coffee shop, may partner with Amazon to create a 'coffee shop with no cash register payment'.

Potential Starbucks partnership shows Amazon's ambitions for its cashierless retail technology --GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/potential-starbucks-partnership-shows-amazons-ambitions-cashierless-retail-technology/

When a shopper removes a product from a shelf, Amazon's cash-free payment system, Just Walk Out, automatically detects the product brought out by a system that combines in-store computer vision, sensors, and machine learning. Then, a 'virtual cart' is created that summarizes the products that each shopper has, and when the shopper goes out of the store, the fee is charged through the credit card registered at the time of entering the store. Is realized.

You can check how to shop at Amazon Go, which uses Just Walk Out, which allows you to actually shop without a cash register, in the following article.

I tried a new shopping experience of 'registration free' at the convenience store 'Amazon Go' without cash register --GIGAZINE

Work for the introduction of Just Walk Out to store it and completed in just a few weeks, Amazon has plans to provide Just Walk Out to the outside of a retail store in partnership in March 2020 has revealed . In September 2021, Amazon's supermarket chain Whole Foods Market announced that it would introduce Just Walk Out at two stores in the United States.

Amazon's cash-free payment system has appeared in supermarkets, and you don't need to go through the cash register just by holding your hand --GIGAZINE

And a new Business Insider report released in October 2021 states that Starbucks has discussed with Amazon a new style of store featuring Just Walk Out technology, citing proprietary internal documents. ..

The store jointly established by Amazon and Starbucks will be launched as a new brand, and it will be possible to purchase drinks, baked goods, food, etc. without paying at the conventional cash register. The initial layout of the store is expected to look like an Amazon Go food section inside a cafe with a lounge and seats. Customers need to use two types of apps, the Starbucks drink app and the Amazon food app, but they plan to eventually build a solution that integrates the two apps.

The new brand stores reported this time are still in the planning and discussion stages, so it is unclear whether the partnership between Amazon and Starbucks will actually be realized. However, Amazon's plans to partner with global coffee shop Starbucks have been pointed out as reflecting Amazon's ambitions to roll out its technology extensively.

Technology media GeekWire asked Amazon and Starbucks for comment, but Amazon replied, 'I will not comment on rumors and speculation,' and Starbucks declined to comment.