VOA慢速英語：新亞馬遜商店使顧客避免排長隊

This is What’s Trending Today…
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The online marketer Amazon is opening a new kind of store. It is one where people do not have to wait in long lines to buy a product. Instead, the buyers pay using their smartphones.
線上交易商亞馬遜開啟一種新型商店。在該商店，人們不需要排長隊去買商品。相反，顧客可以通過智能手機支付。
The new store is in the American city of Seattle, Washington. It is called Amazon Go. It sells products that are normally found in a grocery store. What you will not find, however, are long lines and cashiers exchanging money.
該新型商店坐落在美國華盛頓西雅圖市。商店的名字叫做“American Go”。該商店出售一些很普通的商品，一些經(jīng)常在雜貨店出售的商品。然而，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)排長隊和收銀臺找零。
Customers must have a smartphone, an Amazon account, and a program on their smartphone: the Amazon Go app. The app makes a list of everything that customers plan to buy from the store. After customers have finished shopping, they can simply leave.
顧客必須有一臺智能電話，擁有亞馬遜賬戶，并且在手機上安裝一個程序--the Amazon Go app。該手機應用制作一個清單，該清單包括了顧客從商店購買的一切物品。顧客完成購物時，他們就可以簡單的離開了。
Amazon says that because its new store does not require as many employees, the prices of goods will remain low.
亞麻遜表示：因為該商店不需要那么多的員工，因此商品的價格會保持最低價。
The company has been working on creating the store for four years.
公司已經(jīng)籌劃該商店四年時間。
#AmazonGo became a trending topic this week on social media.
本周，AmazonGo 標簽變成了社會媒體的熱點話題。
One person on Twitter published a photograph of himself waiting in a very long line at a grocery store. He wrote, “I cannot wait for Amazon Go. Longest queue in history.”
推特上的某人發(fā)表了一張自己在雜貨店排長隊的照片。他寫道：“我迫不及待Amazon Go。歷史上最長隊”
But, it may be some time before Amazon Go stores open up in other areas. Even the Seattle store is still only open to Amazon employees. The company plans to open that store to the public in early 2017.
但是，可能需要一些時間，Amazon Go在其他地方開店。該公司計劃最早在2017年面向公眾開業(yè)。
And that’s What’s Trending Today.
這就是今天的今日熱點。
I’m Jill Robbins.
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