‘SNL’ has a go at Amazon Go in spoof on how white and black shoppers may view ‘Just Walk Out’ tech

Are persons seriously confident that it is secure to just seize and go from a cashierless Amazon Go retail outlet? Is dependent on who they are, as significantly as “Saturday Night Live” is involved.

The present had a go at Go ease suppliers on Saturday evening in a bogus commercial portraying how white and black consumers might perspective Amazon’s technological innovation a bit otherwise.

“At an Amazon Go retail outlet, you can just walk in, seize what you want, place it in your bag and just go,” a voiceover states.

“So I just seize what I want and depart? Wow, that is so uncomplicated,” a person white shopper (Heidi Gardner) says in the spoof.

“Oh, so you want me to just take some thing and stroll out? Nah, son,” claims a black shopper (Kenan Thompson), right before including, “Nice test.”

Actress Zoë Kravitz (“The Batman,” “KIMI”) hosted “SNL” this weekend and seems in the spoof as a shopper who is worried to just get a bottle of kombucha and has her white boyfriend do it alternatively.

When she exits the retail store she maintain her fingers up and screams, “I’m with him!”

The 1st Amazon Go shop opened in Seattle in January 2018. “Just Wander Out” refers to the know-how that makes the outlets really go, with an array of overhead cameras and shelf sensors to track what shoppers are choosing up. The tech is now utilised in some larger sized Amazon Fresh and Complete Foods grocery shops as perfectly as places these as Seattle’s Local weather Pledge Arena.