The online giant has revealed its advanced concept for a store utilizing "Just Walk Out" technology. SAN FRANCISCO -- The Amazon Go grocery store, now in the testing stage in Seattle, has captured the public's attention. At a time of year when many people are standing in long lines to do their holiday shopping, the idea of being able to walk into a store, pick things up, walk out and have everything automatically charged to a credit card sounds like a dream come true. The video the Seattle company released online Monday said nothing about the underlying technology beyond some buzz-words: computer vision, deep learning algorithms and sensor fusion. But a patent filed by the company in 2014 and published in 2015 may shed some light on the process, and it looks like it's all about cameras and microphones.

First, the basics: Amazon has created a small Seattle grocery store that allows customers to just take what they want off the shelves and leave, without having to wait in line or check out with a cashier. In addition to traditional grocery items, Amazon Go will also feature meal kits with fresh ingredients to be prepared at home. For now, the 1,800 square foot Amazon Go store is only open to Amazon employees, but the company plans to open the doors to the public in early 2017. The company didn't announce further expansion plans, but based on the slick promotional video released yesterday, it seems evident this isn't a one-off idea. Earlier this year, Business Insider reported that Amazon was planning a grocery store pilot program, and may ultimately aim for 2,000 markets around the US in the next decade.

Amazon says it is opening a new food and convenience store that doesn't have a check-out line. Instead, the company envisions customers at the Amazon Go store picking up whatever they want off the shelves – then simply walking out with it. The items are automatically billed to their Amazon accounts. Details about how the technology actually works are sparse. "We used computer vision, deep learning algorithms and sensor fusion much like you'd find in self-driving cars," a narrator says in a video from Amazon.

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What is the Amazon Go Store, the new retail shopping experience and why is it important? It was a cold day at Amazon headquarters on September 12th, 1997. Jeff Bezos was nervous as he submitted a new and unique patent to the USTPO called "Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network" [0]. This came to be known as the Amazon 1-click patent and a few years later it was licensed by Apple for their websites and later iTunes. It has defined the web experience since.

Amazon Go, a grocery shopping experience without lines and checkouts revealed Monday, could open more than 2,000 stores, according to The Wall Street Journal. The opening of those stores depend on the success of test locations, sources told the Journal . The first store, which is roughly 1,800 square feet, is in Seattle. The retail space is currently open to Amazon employees as part of the beta program, and will open to the public in early 2017. Amazon is developing two other store formats, sources revealed.

On Monday, Amazon took the wraps off Amazon Go, a real-world grocery store that comes with a twist: there's no checkout process. You just grab the stuff you want and walk out; the order posts to your Amazon account afterwards. There are no cashiers, no lines, no fumbling for a credit card. And while experts agree that Go looks very much like the future of retail, it's less clear whether Amazon has all of the pieces in place. Amazon says all you need is the Amazon Go app to enter the store and start shopping.

If you're wondering what the grocery store of the future looks like, Amazon may have just painted the clearest picture yet. On Monday, Amazon announced Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar grocery store that has eliminated the need for cashiers and checkouts, instead relying on specific technologies to confirm your purchase. Amazon calls this group of tools its Just Walk Out technology, and it includes technologies such as "computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning," according to its website. Users simply visit the store--located in Seattle--and shop for the items they need. Just Walk Out detects what you take and charges your Amazon account after you leave the store.

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Amazon on Monday revealed that it will open a brick-and-mortar grocery store called Amazon Go, an ambitious bid by the once online-only retailer to gobble up more of Americans' shopping dollars by taking the fight more directly to traditional supermarkets and big-box stores. The store will be powered by a web of technology that allows customers to fill their shopping bags and walk out without going through a checkout process, a concept that has long been discussed in the retail industry but that has not been implemented at any major U.S. stores. The idea is that it will shave time off the shopping experience. Here's how Amazon Go will work: Customers download an app and then swipe their smartphones as they walk through the store's entrance. Then they just start picking up groceries.