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SimplyFresh opens its second ‘just walk out’ store

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SimplyFresh has opened its second store with Amazon’s technology to allow customers to pay automatically and “just walk out” when they have picked up their shopping. The LittleFresh store is in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on the electric vehicle recharging forecourt run by Gridserve. Kash Khera, the…

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