Amazon Shopping Cart Knows What You’re Buying

Santa Claus knows if you’ve been good or bad, but Amazon knows what you put into your shopping cart. This technology will eventually force tens of thousands of cashiers and other grocery workers out of business. ⁃ TN EditorAmazon has a new cure for long supermarket lines: a smart shopping cart.
The cart, which Amazon unveiled on Tuesday, uses cameras, sensors and a scale to automatically detect what shoppers drop in. It keeps a tally and then charges their Amazon account when they le