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Amazon expands checkout-free tech to healthcare sector

Amazon expands checkout-free tech to healthcare sector

A new retail store powered by Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology has opened at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Centre. The launch marks a strategic push for the frictionless shopping system into healthcare environments, aiming to streamline the experience for patients, medical staff, and visitors navigating the facility.

The project, developed in collaboration with Gallery, represents a growing trend of deploying automated retail systems beyond sports stadiums and traditional convenience stores. Garett Buchholz of Gallery noted that the successful integration of the tech underscores the potential for frictionless retail to provide efficiency in high-traffic, time-sensitive settings like medical campuses.

Amazon’s platform has now surpassed 400 global locations. While the company maintains a heavy footprint in sports and entertainment venues—such as Soldier Field and Spartan Stadium—the shift toward healthcare suggests a broader application for the technology. Wes Moon, a senior business development manager at Amazon, emphasized that the primary goal remains reducing wait times and creating a seamless exit-to-entry process for users.

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