Amazon’s Automated Grocery Store Works Great as Long as Nobody Runs or Moves Stuff Around

Believe it or not , Amazon is having a little bit of bother with its “ super futuristic store with no employees ” estimation . The latest report out of Seattle claim thatthe Amazon Go conceptis being detain due to some technical struggles . Basically , the electronic computer get really disordered when people shop .

Honestly , the idea of an level-headed grocery storehouse that let you “ just take the air out , ” without standing in crease at a cash cash register is futurist as hell . It ’s scarcely a surprise that there are some hiccough . Unnamed sourcesrecently toldThe Wall Street Journal about some of the problems . The theme reports :

Amazon has melt into problem trail more than about 20 the great unwashed in the store at one time , as well as the difficulty of keeping tab on an item if it has been moved from its specific touch on the ledge

Yikes . 20 people is not that many people , and any number of people in a grocery store pretty much guarantees stuff is going to get scuffle around on the shelves . That is not to say that the engineering does n’t work at all . Here ’s The Journal again :

For now , the technology functions flawlessly only if there are a modest number of client present , or when their movement are slow

Go ahead and express mirth . A shop that maxes out when a handful of people are present and ca n’t keep up with those shoppers unless they ’re move in slow motion is objectively hilarious .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

The Amazon Go store that ’s having the hassle is a beta version of the concept launch last December , and nobody have a bun in the oven everything to go perfectly . It looks like Amazon ’s original estimate for an early 2017 public initiative was overambitious . After all , the company ask big crowds when its headline - grab Amazon Go stores open to the world . That opening wo n’t go so well if the computers malfunction when too many people crowd the aisles or move too quickly .

For now , we ’ll have to wait and see how Jeff Bezos and his buds make tweaks to the software so that hoi polloi are n’t stealing sandwiches lead and right . Amazon Go is a nerveless idea — but it ’s not a very sensitive one if Amazon ca n’t rouse people for what they ’re grease one’s palms .

[ Wall Street Journal ]

William Duplessie