Amazon confirms its intention to open its Go-free store in New York



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Get ready New Yorkers: you get an Amazon Go store.

Amazon confirmed to CNN that it was considering opening one of its non-cash grocery stores in the future in New York after several job offers for positions such as a store manager were posted online.

Amazon opened the first Go store in Seattle in January of this year. Acclaimed as the store of the future, customers are using their phone to scan their Amazon Go app on the turnstiles at the entrance.

Then the rest is like magic.

You simply take what you want to buy from shelves and put it in your bag. Amazon uses its "Walk Out" technology which consists of a set of cameras and sensors located in the shelves and installed in the ceilings to track each item you have taken.

All your "purchased" items are totaled and billed via the app. You leave the Go store and never have to deal with cash lines or cashiers in a bad mood.

Since the opening of Go Store in Seattle, Amazon has opened two more stores in the city. The company is also expected to open Go stores in Chicago and San Francisco.

Retailers are not sitting yet and are allowing Amazon to browse them. Walmart would work on its own competitors Amazon Go and could use Microsoft technology to achieve this.

Mashable has contacted Amazon for confirmation and for more details about

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