Amazon teams with Community Groceries and claims Just Walk Out and Amazon One tech first

Community Groceries, a grocery store in Kansas City, USA, is set to re-open with a new retail technology centric customer experience on 16th December. 

The company has collaborated with Amazon to equip Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One in one of its stores for the first time.

It’s also the first time Amazon has expanded both technologies to a third-party customer’s grocery store in the US.

“Amazon’s technologies change the way we think about shopping. I, like most people, have a very full schedule, and grocery shopping is a tedious task for me,” says Alyssa Groenig, Director of Sales and Marketing at Community Groceries.

“This new experience will enable me, and all of our guests, to shop efficiently and be on our way with no checkout lines and no hassle.”

A shopper can enter the store by dipping their credit card at the entry gates, or hovering their palm over an Amazon One device.

Once inside, the technology detects what they take from or return to the shelves in the store.

When they have completed their shopping experience, they will be able to just leave the store and the credit card they inserted or linked to their Amazon One ID will be charged for the items they took.

“We are thrilled to work with Community Groceries to unlock a fast and frictionless experience for their shoppers in Kansas City - one we believe they’ll enjoy very much,” says Dilip Kumar, Vice President, AWS Applications.

“Community Groceries is renowned for encouraging healthy lifestyles and focusing first and foremost on their local community, so we’re honoured to have them as our first customer in the grocery vertical to launch a Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One enabled store.”