The Whole Foods Market logo is shown connected the beforehand of a store, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, successful Cambridge, Mass. Amazon, which owns the market chain, said Wednesday, Sept. 8, that it volition bring its cashier-less exertion to 2 Whole Foods stores for the archetypal time, letting shoppers drawback what they request and permission without having to unfastened their wallets. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

The Whole Foods Market logo is shown connected the beforehand of a store, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, successful Cambridge, Mass. Amazon, which owns the market chain, said Wednesday, Sept. 8, that it volition bring its cashier-less exertion to 2 Whole Foods stores for the archetypal time, letting shoppers drawback what they request and permission without having to unfastened their wallets. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

NEW YORK – There volition beryllium thing missing astatine 2 Whole Foods stores opening adjacent year: the rows of cashiers.

Amazon, which owns the market chain, said Wednesday that it volition bring its cashier-less exertion to 2 Whole Foods stores for the archetypal time, letting shoppers drawback what they request and permission without having to unfastened their wallets. Cameras and sensors way what’s taken disconnected shelves. Items are charged to an Amazon relationship aft customers permission the store with them.

But determination volition beryllium an enactment for those who privation to store the old-fashioned way: Self-checkout lanes volition beryllium disposable that instrumentality cash, acquisition cards and different types of payment.

Amazon archetypal unveiled the cashier-less exertion successful 2018 astatine an Amazon Go convenience store and has expanded it to larger Amazon supermarkets. But it volition beryllium the archetypal clip it has appeared astatine Whole Foods, a concatenation of much than 500 market stores Amazon bought 4 years ago.

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One of the caller stores volition beryllium successful Washington, D.C.; the different successful Sherman Oaks, California. They volition beryllium stocked with the emblematic Whole Foods fare, including seafood, fresh-squeezed orangish foodstuff and integrated vegetables.

Even with the technology, Amazon said it volition inactive prosecute astir the aforesaid fig of workers for the stores that it usually would, but they volition person antithetic roles, helping shoppers successful the aisles oregon astatine counters alternatively of lasting down a register. The institution declined to accidental however galore radical it volition hire.

The institution besides declined to accidental if it plans to bring the exertion to much Whole Foods locations.

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