Amazon’s grocery stores were just smoke and mirrors

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The tech, which was only available at half of the e-commerce giant's Amazon Fresh stores, used a host of cameras and sensors to track what shoppers left the store with. But instead of closing the technological loop with pure automation and AI, the company also had to rely on an army of over 1,000 workers in India, who were acting as remote cashiers. 

I have a friend that has a family member that works for a call center that is located in a tiny poor village. I didn't understand before how that worked, that the whole town just about relies on that call center for their livelihood, and they were not selling anything. Now, so much makes sense.