Amazon’s “store of the future,” which features no checkout lines nor cashiers, will finally open tomorrow in Seattle. It’s being described as a high-tech 7-Eleven: customers will have to use an app to enter the store by turnstile, but they can immediately leave after getting the items they need since their Amazon accounts are charged automatically.



The store’s real reason for being is to test what could be a breakthrough Amazon hypothesis: that by adding even more convenience to the convenience store model — with the help of a healthy dose of technology — Amazon might be able to carve out a loyal customer base outside of its website and inside a physical store where the vast majority of food and grocery shopping still occurs.

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