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by peterkshultz 3065 days ago
When Amazon Go was first announced, my guess was that they were using RFID tags on every item in the store.

I now understand why that was misguided: the cost of RFID tags would scale linearly with the amount of goods sold. With Amazon's camera/ML technology, they can reproduce this store wherever they want for just the cost of the hardware and maintenance.

I really appreciated the article for explaining that.