On: Inside Amazon Go

[bachaco]

>Seems like the total investment in this store/technology is probably in the single digit digit millions (or maybe low double digit).

It was much more than that. They bought Whole Foods which was worth 13 billion.

[mft_ → bachaco]

Amazon Go had very little to do with Whole Foods.

It may, one day, but to link the cost of buying Whole Foods to the cost of development of Go is inaccurate.

[pests → bachaco]

The article didn't state this was related to Whole foods besides stocking some product. This could be done completely independently.