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Amazon opens first full-size grocery store

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SEATTLE — Amazon has just opened its first full-size check-out free grocery store in Seattle.

All customers need is their phone to walk into Amazon's new "Amazon Go Grocery."

It's your typical grocery store with items like meat, produce, beer and other things one would find inside a grocery store.

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But the twist is, you don't pay a cashier when you're done — because there aren't any.

The way it works is customers will pick out their items — individually priced, so there's no weighing involved and walk out.

Everything you buy is tracked by sensors on the ceiling. It tracks what items are picked up or returned. Once you've picked it up, Amazon will add it to your virtual cart.

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Once you're done shopping, you can leave and Amazon will send you a receipt and charge your Amazon account

and then charged to your Amazon account.

Even though there are no cashiers in the store, workers will be there to greet customers, answer questions and restock shelves.

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