Amazon Expands Sales of Its Cashierless Tech, While Scaling Back Itself

Battered by headlines describing a retreat from a technology that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had personally helped steer, the company now says it plans to put the same system it’s removing from some of its own stores into at least 120 additional stores run by other retailers by the end of the year. “We’re going to have way more stores and way more successful launches,” says Jon Jenkins, vice president of Just Walk Out. The company has also told employees the technology is on a “path to profitability,” according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing internal communications.