Amazon's high-tech grocery store will let you grab a beer and walk out (almost)

Liquor laws will be the one thing keeping Amazon Go in the low-tech past. 

The grocery store with no cashiers and no checkout lines will sell alcohol, requiring a human to check IDs, Recode reported on Tuesday. 

The publication spotted an application for a liquor license in the window of Amazon's Seattle store, and Amazon confirmed that it plans to sell beer and wine. Amazon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Mashable. 

“When we start offering beer and wine, there will be an associate checking identification,” an Amazon spokesperson told Recode. 

Amazon unveiled its plans for Amazon Go with a video showing its vision for grocery shopping in December. Customers enter the stores by checking in with their smartphones, which will track everything customers take from shelves and charge their Amazon accounts after they walk out.  Read more...

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