Store of the future: Amazon Go cashier-less convenience store, now open for public

Photos: Here’s what the new Amazon Go cashier-less convenience store looks like. It’s the store of the future. 

By Meghann Farnsworth

Amazon Go was supposed to be a cashier-less, checkout line-free store to help get people in and out faster — a convenience store of the future. But while Amazon employees have been able to use the store for the past year or so, it had failed to open the public. Until now.

We recently got a look at the store, which is based at the bottom of Amazon’s main office tower in Seattle, before it opens to the public on Monday, January 22. Let’s take a look. 

You scan a special Amazon Go app on the way in to get access to the store. On the way out, you just walk out — no scanning

Jason Del Rey

Jason Del Rey

Amazon Go has food for all day parts: breakfast, lunch and dinner. One dinner option is meal kits that are exclusive to Amazon.

Jason Del Rey

Jason Del Rey

Jason Del Rey

Jason Del Rey

While the Amazon Go store is cashier-less, there will be a worker checking IDs in the wine and beer section. So don’t get any ideas.

Jason Del Rey

See those black squares on the ceiling? Those are cameras and they are all over the store.

Jason Del Rey

So a reminder if you live in Seattle (or feel like going), the cashier-less Amazon Go store opens to the public on Monday, January 22.

Jason Del Rey