More Americans are slowly but surely beginning to embrace the concept of cashless and totally contactless payments, namely courtesy of Amazon and their Just Walk Out tech, which provides a “frictionless” experience that allows patrons to grab the items a location and simply exit the store, with the expenses withdrawn from customers bank accounts; along with Amazon’s palm-reading payment system “Amazon One.”
Amazon One has been implemented in all Whole Foods locations, announced earlier this year, including a smattering of other businesses.
Moreover, Amazon’s cashless stores utilizing their Just Walk Out systems are reportedly seeing an uptick in acceptance, though Amazon did have to shutter 8 of these types of locations earlier this year. Amazon has also been sued by New York City residents for having their biometric data collected violated and wrongfully used.
Nevertheless, some locations have still decided to implement the tech, such as a sports stadium in Australia, and an independent grocery store in Kansas.
New statistics purport that Amazon’s cashless payment systems are steadily trending upward, and increasing their expansion.
Biometric Update explains more in their report:
Amazon says the Just Walk Out store in the Seahawks’ Lumen Field NFL stadium launched last year is a rousing success. The AI system allows fans to enter a concession stand, grab what they want, and walk directly back to their seats without going through a checkout process. A Just Walk Out store in the stadium saw double sales when compared to the previous store in the same location.
Those entering the store can use a credit card at the entry gate or elect to scan their palm biometrics with an Amazon One device as their payment method. When a user picks up an item in the store, the system adds it to their virtual cart. If the user returns it to the shelf, it will automatically remove it. Customers are charged for what they take as they leave the store.
While the population at large is generally not comfortable with conducting biometric payments through hand recognition, the percent of U.S. adults who are at least “somewhat comfortable” with the method has increased from 22 percent in 2019 to 27 percent in 2023, says Civic Science.
Thirty-three percent of those who currently use mobile payment methods like Apple Pay or Venmo are at least somewhat comfortable with paying with their palms. Those who intend to use mobile payment apps are actually more comfortable with using a palm payment method, with 45 percent being at least somewhat comfortable with it.
The Just Walk Out system operates independently from Amazon One and doesn’t collect any biometric information to track the identity of shoppers, the company says. It instead links a customer with their payment information and assigns a temporary numeric code which is deleted once they leave the store.
All we need to know is where that person is on the floor, and where their hands are in relation to the store’s merchandise.
Gérard Medioni, vice president and scientist at Amazon says.
The computer vision team used datasets from AI-generated synthetic images and video clips mimicking realistic shopping scenarios in various store formats, lighting, and crowds of shoppers. As a result, the system can recognize millions of actions “without making mistakes,” reads the announcement. The company also used synthetic data to train its Amazon One palm biometrics.
The system is available at over 70 Amazon-owned stores and over 85 third-party locations across the U.S., UK and Australia.
Amazon One is also set to be launched in all Whole Foods stores by the end of this year.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This of course, as I have pointed many times before, obviously, is a major precursor to the eventual mark of the beast. We still have a bit more to go (however long that is), but it is becoming clearer and clearer by the day to see where this is all going, and how more people are starting to steadily accept. A massive trigger event that gravely scares the population will influence way more people to start using it.
[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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They already have the technology. Now they just need to get people to chip themselves in the very near future.
Yes the only thing is the “Go-signal” and it begins
Simple; don’t go to these stores! RESIST
You can’t replace your palm prints or your face if the biometric system gets hacked.