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amazon is expanding its empire beyond the virtual space and into the real world the online retail giant announced amazon go a physical grocery store where shoppers can just pick out an item and basically just walk out without so much as reaching for their wallet all you need is a phone and an app scan the phone to step into the store and Amazon takes care of the rest they keep close tabs on inventory using a series of cameras sensors and machine learning similar to the technology found in self-driving cars so anything you grab will automatically be added to your virtual cart and then charged to your account when you step out no lines no registers and no human interaction Amazon calls it their just walk out technology which I'm pretty sure shoplifters had already been using for decades their pilot store in Seattle is up and running but for Amazon employees only Amazon go officially launches sometime in 2017 if you want to know exactly when you can go online and choose to be notified and for more of your top tech news make sure to check out cnet.com in San Francisco i'm vanessa hand Arianna