The United Arab Emirates opened the first fully automated store

In the United Arab Emirates, they opened the first fully automated store without the obligation to wait and pay at the box office. The novelty was presented in one of the shopping malls in Dubai. The mini market belonging to the Carrefour network looks like any ordinary shop with various goods. However, it contains a hidden and sophisticated system with countless cameras and sensors that monitor the movement of customers on individual shelves. People with a smartphone app designed for smartphones are free to put products in the cart, and when they leave the store, their purchase receipt will "beep" on their mobile phone within five minutes. The store then withdraws the payment from the customer's account. The news has already raised privacy concerns in the United States, where Amazon currently operates several such futuristic stores, known as Amazon Go. However, these automated shops are less likely to be the subject of public debate in the autocratic UAE, where they have one of the highest concentrations of surveillance cameras in the world. "This is what the future will look like," Hani Weiss, chief executive officer of Majid Al Futtaim, a franchise operated by Carrefour in the Middle East, told AP. He does not depreciate stone shops in the future, but he believes that the way of shopping will change. The aforementioned Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will introduce similar technology to two Whole Foods stores next year. However, for customers who want to shop the previous way, it will leave self-service cash registers able to accept cash, gift vouchers and other types of payments. However, despite the introduction of this technology, Amazon said it would not negatively affect the number of employees in stores.