Amazon Go rival bets pandemic bolstered case for cashierless shopping
Matt Day, Bloomberg News Circle K store Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg , Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg A startup selling Amazon Go-like checkout technology to retailers has raised money from investors at a US$1 billion valuation, minting a new unicorn a year into a pandemic that has helped bolster the case for automated checkout. Standard Cognition Corp., based in San Francisco, offers a package of cameras and software that tracks browsing shoppers and automatically charges them when they exit. Circle K, the convenience store ...