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Is Amazon a Solution to the Problem of Grocery Stores?

Gloria Borger: Amazon's new grocery stores have cameras and censers in every square inch of the store to track everything that you kind of pick up and put in your shopping basket and walk out with. She says it sounds cool, but also extremely creepy; why would you want a grocery shop without humans? Borger: It always strikes me that amazon solution to the sort of pain points of shopping is basically to throw robots at the problem. And i'm not sure that that is really the solution too.

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