Amazon may be planning a robot-run supermarket

Amazon has made plans for a two-storey, automated supermarket run by robots. A staff of robots on the top floor will automatically grab shopping from shelves and bring it down to customers below meaning that each store could be run by only three staff at a time. The ground-level of the prototype store is a supermarket-sized version of the company's recently announced'Amazon Go' convenience store. Amazon has made plans for a two-storey, automated supermarket run by robots. The rumoured robot-run supermarkets are not Amazon's first foray into the world of grocery shopping.