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Amazon announced details of an ambitious new brick-and-mortar convenience store, to be known as Amazon Go, which it said would offer consumers grocery essentials, convenience items and prepared foods-to-go without requiring them to check out.
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Related: Stern: Amazon Go may change the game:
http://www.supermarketnews.com/new-consumer/stern-amazon-go-may-change-game
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