Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, called Amazon Fresh a 'dystopian, total-surveillance shopping experience'. Amazon is to close all of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores in the UK, putting workers at the retailer at risk. Crucially, Amazon Fresh customers didn't have to stop at a check-out – not only because there weren't any. Professor Luca Arnaboldi, a computer scientist at the University of Birmingham, said Amazon Fresh stores were always 'more of a novelty' than a rival to main street food stores. Amazon Fresh stores have cameras and depth-sensors developed with deep-learning AI techniques to monitor which items the customers grabHow does Amazon Fresh work?