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Amazon Go: The Future of Shopping

The document discusses Amazon Go, Amazon's cashier-less convenience store. It provides two video links about how Amazon Go works without cashiers by using sensors and artificial intelligence to automatically charge customers for the items they take. Customers simply scan in with a smartphone app and can walk out with their items. The document asks questions about people's opinions on the technology and implications for jobs and competition in the retail industry. It also includes a vocabulary practice section.

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Amazon Go: The Future of Shopping

The document discusses Amazon Go, Amazon's cashier-less convenience store. It provides two video links about how Amazon Go works without cashiers by using sensors and artificial intelligence to automatically charge customers for the items they take. Customers simply scan in with a smartphone app and can walk out with their items. The document asks questions about people's opinions on the technology and implications for jobs and competition in the retail industry. It also includes a vocabulary practice section.

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Three Wise Kangaroos

Amazon Go, the go-to for hassle-free shopping


Lead-in
1. Do you see shopping as pleasure or as a drag?
2. What kind of things do you least enjoy shopping for?
3. What factors might influence your decision to shop at a
particular supermarket?
 price
 range and availability of products
 opening hours
 number of check-outs open at any given time
 how ethical the business is (has responsibly sourced
products, pays its employees a good wage, cares about the
environment)
 other?
4. When you're in a supermarket, do you prefer to be served by a person or do you
use the self-service check-outs?

Video
Watch an advertising trailer about Amazon Go and answer the questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc

1. How does Amazon Go differ from a standard supermarket?


2. How does this technology work?

Watch another short video about Amazon Go and answer the questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plFoehDaVQI

1. How does the new Amazon Go grocery store sell fruit and vegetables?
2. How do the prices compare to those at a nearby grocery store? Out of the three products
compared, which one differed the most in price?
3. What still remains to be seen about this walk-out technology?
4. A major labour union has raised concerns over the new stores saying their cashier-free
policy would lead to _____________.
5. Which other supermarket chain is testing the walk-out technology at their headquarters in
Texas with the view to implementing it in their stores?

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Three Wise Kangaroos
Over to you
1. Do you find Amazon Go appealing?
2. Do you think that being cashier-free gives the retailer a major advantage over its
competitors?
3. Can you think of any disadvantages of stores like Amazon Go?
4. Do you think that a wide adoption of this technology will lead to major job losses?
Should the use of this technology be discouraged to ensure employment?
5. Is automation a threat to your job industry?

Vocabulary practice
Use the words given to complete the sentences below.

 fire back  supplants


 cash in on  scales
 sit well with  retailer

1. If an idea doesn't ______________somebody, it means they disapprove of it or find


it unacceptable.
2. If you ______________, you quickly react to what has been said or done.
3. A set of _________ is what you use to measure the weight of something.
4. A ______________ sells goods directly to the public, as opposed to a wholesaler
who sells to businesses.
5. If you ______________ something, you take advantage of a situation and make
more money as a result.
6. If something ___________ something, it replaces it.

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