Amazon claims in their press release this expansion is because there is a continued growth and acceptance of the concept.
Amazon wrote in their blog post (excerpts:
As Amazon One—Amazon Web Services’s palm recognition service for identification, payment, loyalty membership, and entry at over 400 locations across the U.S.—reaches a critical milestone with more than 3 million uses, Whole Foods Market stores are going all in. By the end of this year, all 500+ Whole Foods Market locations in the U.S. will offer Amazon One for payment and Prime membership benefits. This means Whole Foods Market customers who choose to use Amazon One will no longer need their wallet or even a phone to pay—they can simply hover their palm over an Amazon One device. For Prime members who link their Amazon One profile with their Amazon account, savings will automatically be applied. It’s that simple.
In addition to Amazon One’s availability at stores like Amazon Fresh stores and Whole Foods Market locations, third-party businesses are increasingly offering Amazon One as an identification and payment option for their customers—and some of them are also using Amazon One in new ways.
Panera Bread recently launched Amazon One’s loyalty linking capability at select Panera restaurants. With this feature, guests can simply hover their palm over the Amazon One device, and the Panera associate will be able to pull up their MyPanera loyalty account information, greet the guest by name, and provide a customized experience. After the order is placed, the guest can scan their palm again to pay.
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At Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies MLB team, Aramark Sports + Entertainment is taking advantage of Amazon One’s “age verification” capability. This feature allows adult customers ages 21 and over to purchase alcoholic beverages by simply scanning their palm at an Amazon One device without looking for their government-issued IDs.
Travel retailers, like Hudson, CREWS, and OHM, understand the benefits of palm payment in busy airport environments, and have deployed Amazon One at their airport stores in Atlanta, Charleston, Dallas, Dulles, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Newark, Nashville, Seattle, and more. Sports venues are revolutionizing the fan experience through partnerships with businesses like AXS, Compass, Delaware North, Levy, Penn Entertainment, Sodexo, and others. Currently, Amazon One is available at sports stadiums like Bridgestone Arena, Climate Pledge Arena, Globe Life Field, Lumen Field, T-Mobile Center, T-Mobile Park, NASCAR Raceway, and Texas A&M’s Kyle Field, as well as entertainment venues like Hollywood Casino at Greektown in Detroit, and more. Amazon One is also available at several grocery and convenience stores.
We are always looking for new ways to delight our customers and improve the shopping experience. Since we’ve introduced Amazon One at Whole Foods Market stores over the past two years, we’ve seen that customers love the convenience it provides, and we’re excited to bring Amazon One to all of our customers across the U.S.
Leandro Balbinot, chief technology officer at Whole Foods Market, said
Additionally, unlike a credit card or password, an Amazon One palm signature can’t be replicated to impersonate a customer. That’s because Amazon One does not use raw palm images to identify a person. Instead, it looks at both the palm and underlying vein structure to create a unique numerical, vector representation—called a “palm signature”—for identity matching.
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It is also worth mentioning Amazon is also expanding a similar biometric payment system called “Just Walk Out,” sometimes referred to as “frictionless;” which allows customers to just simply enter a store and a scan an ID, place the items you want in the cart, and then simply exit and the items will be charged to your bank account.
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This of course is more evidence of the mark of the beast framework taking greater shape, conditioning the masses to start paying with their bodies instead of cash or even plastic.
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13:16-18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I am looking forward to being caught up. Every day, I am just more and more vexed, grieved, angered, saddened, and at times, scared by all the evil.
The false and of course, lukewarm christians are still chasing rainbows with revivals despite what the Bible says about the great falling away in the last days.
I am excited to see this happening because it is just one more step before we are called home to our mansions and I wanna make sure that I am saved truly every day and do whatever I can for the Lord by laying tracts, taping messages onto walls, reading the King James Bible and praying and make sure I am “rapture ready!”
Urgent! To all people that’s reading this comment, I’m sending to pleading to tell everyone in the world how really bad situation in Croatia, especially in Slavonia region, after devastating storm had occuored a few days ago there.
People in Slavonia are in desperate situation after devastating storm. Power lines have been cut in many villages – some villages are completely without electricity. Units in larger cities like Vukovar and Vinkovci are sold out in all stores, people have nowhere else to buy. Without electricity, villagers are throwing away food from refrigerators, all meat and milk that was gained from years of livestock farming, in the fear of getting spoiling very quickly.
Some houses are cut from water network. Every house in the village is in ruins – trees uprooted from the ground or broken like toothpicks, in some places the concrete poles are also broken.
The roofs of the barns have collapsed, the food is wet, some of it had to be thrown away immediately. The corn in the fields has been leveled with the ground. We don’t know what we will feed the livestock with. This is actually the worst thing because these people live on it and everything is destroyed – the house can be repaired, but this way they will be without money.
We are left on our own without any help, the government won’t do anything as they are on globalist’s side trying to sell our land to big corporations. They did same thing when it’s major flooding in 2015 and Petrinja earthquake in 2020.
Our voices and desperate screams for help are being kept silenced by mainstream media and fact-checkers, it’s total evil. Please spread word around.
Sorry to hear that. Perhaps I’ll do a little more digging into this for an article. Thanks for letting us know of the situation.
God help us all from these marxist and unChristain evil doers .