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The Clark Howard Podcast

7.29.20 Amazon & Walmart changing checkout experience and robots that cook; Acorns Early to save for your child

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.64.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Amazon has created a new shopping cart that allows you to skip the checkout line. Walmart is working on something similar that will create efficiency and limit human contact. Acorns has created Acorns Early to help you start invest for your child's future. If you have a child born in 2020 the account is free until they turn 18! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thanks for taking time out of your day to join us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's

0:10.9

all about you and that wall of yours.

0:13.5

I want you to learn ways to save more and spend less and don't let anyone ever rip you

0:20.2

off.

0:21.2

There's a lot of technology coming that's going to affect how you do a variety of things,

0:27.3

even jobs that people hold.

0:30.6

Amazon has developed a shopping cart.

0:34.6

Most people aren't aware of Amazon very quietly is opening Amazon branded supermarkets.

0:44.0

And they're doing just a few around the country as they've really failed with whole foods.

0:50.0

They're trying to come up with an Amazon branded super market.

0:54.2

The shopping carts automatically know what you have in your cart.

1:01.4

And when you're done shopping, you just walk right out of the Amazon grocery.

1:07.2

So you don't even stop at a cashier.

1:11.7

And the one thing you have to be is you have to be registered with Amazon with the app

1:17.2

on your phone.

1:19.0

And then it knows who you are when you come in, knows how you're going to pay.

1:24.5

And then the cart, I know this is freaky and weird, but the cart automatically is able

1:31.6

to register each item that has gone in there.

1:35.8

It's called the the dash cart.

1:39.2

And when you're done, you're done.

1:42.6

Just go straight to your vehicle.

1:44.9

At Walmart, Amazon's archival is rumored to be coming out with an addition to their app

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