Amazon launches first Go Grocery store in Seattle

Amazon opened its first ever supermarket, the Amazon Go Grocery store on Tuesday in Seattle.

The store, which is equipped with a series of scanners, is the first cashier-less supermarket and will help customers avoid long check-out lines.

To pay, each visitor places their phone, with the Amazon Go app open, onto a clear square, allowing them access to the aisles.

Through a series of cameras and sensors, everything a shopper picks up is automatically placed in their Amazon online basket account. If the customer picks it up and doesn’t put it back he or she will be emailed a bill that details the amount of money taken out of their Amazon account.

Maddison Nicholas, 23, shopped at the store on Tuesday and said the prices seemed cheaper than Whole Foods's,.

Nevertheless, she also said that it “makes it easy to spend more money than you would pulling out your card and seeing the total.”