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by davidthewatson 701 days ago
That's right. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149986

We all wanted an experience as simple as interacting with the human at Whole Foods checkout OR the robot at the self-checkout, but what we got was this cacophony of anything but what you came here for that is amazon.com and most modern software design.

People wonder why I long for Amazon Go years after I left Seattle and recommended that approach to various retail executives.

Is there any better way to subvert retail than to promote stealing the merchandise as the ultimate UX?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Go