Amazon Go stores to accept cash under growing pressure to serve low-income shoppers


A worker, left, shows Kevin and Lorrie Coon, of Fremont, Calif., how to look for their shopping receipt on a phone at an Amazon Go store in the 100 block of East Wacker Drive Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Amazon Go, the app-enabled stores that enable customers to simply walk out with their purchases – no checkout clerk needed – plans to begin accepting cash amid growing criticism that the process discriminates against low-income shoppers. 

The streamlined convenience stores, which launched last year, feature meals, snacks, grocery items and at some locations, beer, wine and spirits. 

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