Lucas NolanAmazon has announced plans to roll out its palm-scanning payment technology, Amazon One, to all Whole Foods locations by the end of 2023. that by the end of 2023, all Whole Foods locations will have access to Amazon One, the company’s palm-scanning payment system. Amazon One, a payment system introduced in 2020, is set to mark its largest expansion to date.
Currently, Amazon One is already available at 200 Whole Foods and 200 other retail outlets in the United States. The planned expansion will bring the total number of Amazon One payment locations to over 700 by the end of the year. “Since we’ve introduced Amazon One at Whole Foods Market stores over the past two years, we’ve seen that customers love the convenience it provides,” said Leandro Balbinot, chief technology officer at Whole Foods Market. He added, “and we’re excited to bring Amazon One to all of our customers across the U.S.”
Breitbart News has reported on the contentious situation at Whole Foods after Amazon acquired the grocery chain. In one case, AmazonBusiness Insider reports that according to leaked internal documents and inside sources, Amazon-owned grocery store Whole Foods has been tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing.
The company tracks local economic and demographic factors such as the local unemployment rate and the percentage of families in the area living below the poverty line. The stores’ scores are then fed into a “heatmap” which is a geographic map of the United States with red dots indicating high-risk Whole Foods stores.