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All Amazon Fresh stores in UK to close
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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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"You can't work at the store anymore but how about breaking your back in one of our huge warehouses?"
Sad for the people losing their jobs.
I always thought the concept was cool, but wasn't there a news piece a couple years back that the "sensitive cameras" were actually just outsourced humans watching the camera feeds and noting what they took?
AI = Actually Indians
And it still performed atrociously! Also, they quickly gave up on the automation part and they're all just regular grocery stores now.
The problem was the same with every single hardware project - all failed, naturally - Amazon had attempted without the help of their Lab126 skunkworks (later changed to the "devices org," and now just a shell of what it once was): it was critically mismanaged by people who thought their egos mattered more than technology, and whose experience was only with pushing website updates and harassing employees, not shipping finished products.