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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's the biggest news in supermarkets since this incredibly sexist and patronizing |
| 0:11.6 | BBC report from the 70s. Have you noticed that sexist and |
| 0:14.0 | have you noticed that more and more items in your local supermarket are beginning to have markings like these on them. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, that's an internationally agreed code which can be read by a laser and what it says |
| 0:24.7 | is exactly what item of grocery this is and that's a sign of the future because in |
| 0:29.8 | the future your supermarket won't have a check out like this where the girl has to punch up every item |
| 0:34.4 | and its cost. In future that will all be done by Laser. |
| 0:37.6 | Oh mega cringe. |
| 0:39.6 | Anyway let's get right up to date now with our technology correspondent Rory |
| 0:43.0 | Catherine Jones who is in the supermarket of the future. Hello Rory. |
| 0:46.7 | Well I'm outside the supermarket of the future actually Adam. Okay. Because there's a |
| 0:52.1 | great long queue to get in. What makes |
| 0:55.2 | this the supermarket of the future and it's in West London isn't it? It is. It's in |
| 0:58.9 | Ealing, conveniently positioned about a 20-minute walk from my my house which I've just done. |
| 1:05.0 | And what it is is an outlet of Amazon Fresh, the online retailers' grocery chain, |
| 1:11.0 | and it's its first shop in the UK, and it's its first shop in the UK and it's the first shop using |
| 1:14.7 | technology which has only been seen in the United States before where you |
| 1:18.9 | basically just walk out with your shopping with nobody stopping to ask you to pay. I had a go at |
| 1:25.0 | this earlier actually. I pitched up, I scanned an app at the door, I walked around |
| 1:30.4 | and put a bunch of stuff in my shopping bag and then just walked out, waiting for a security guard to grab me, but nobody did and I walked away with my shopping. |
| 1:39.0 | How does it actually know what you've bought? |
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