Amazon ’s cashless convenience stores may be undergoing a significant conceptual service . Specifically , an Amazon spokesperson distinguish Gizmodo , “ We are working to accept cash at Amazon Go . ”
The first Amazon Go location — which allow shoppers to grab bite , premade meal , and other assorted sundries without interact with a bank clerk — opened just over a year ago , and the brand has since expanded to 10 locations . But as Amazon Go amplify , so too did local statute law enterprise necessitating stores ’ acceptance of hard cash — a move signify to protect unbanked , lower - income customers whomight otherwise be shut outfrom cashless shops . harmonize to a recent Gallup poll , around25 percentof shoppers still made all purchases in immediate payment . New Jersey and Massachusetts both have laws on the book to that end ; major cities like Chicago , San Fransisco , and New York are consider following suit of clothes .
According toCNBC , Amazon ’s SVP of strong-arm computer storage Steve Kessel enounce at an all - hands meeting last month that the string would commence exploring how to include beneficial old - fashioned paper money to combat claims of “ favouritism and elitism . ”
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How does a cashless , cashierless store take cash though ? Gizmodo inquired as to whether this would more nearly resemble subsist ego - check model , or if Amazon would but bite the bullet and take stave to handle cash transactions . Unhelpfully , the same spokesperson drop a line that “ pay off Johnny Cash at Amazon Go will work as you would expect : you ’ll check out , give with John Cash , and then get your change . ”
As to when Amazon Go stores will accept cash , it ’s also as you would bear : Amazon declined to point out .
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