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Alina Selyukh

No more 'just walk out' at Amazon grocery stores. The new bet is smart shopping carts

The first Amazon Fresh grocery store in London opened in 2021. The company is replacing its "Just Walk Out" technology at U.S. stores with smart shopping carts, but leaving it in the U.K. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

As far as Amazon's gee-whiz technology goes, "Just Walk Out" is in the pantheon: Early shoppers marveled at the concept of grabbing stuff off grocery shelves and simply leaving, tracked by cameras that calculate the eventual receipt.

Amazon banked big on this to propel its sprouting grocery business past competitors — and in the process transform the industry.

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