Amazon Go has a real rival in Japan and its stock is soaring

Yuji Nakamura and Yuki Furukawa, Bloomberg Published 4:30 am PST, Saturday, November 10, 2018 Customers wait outside the cashierless kiosk, powered by Signpost Corp. on the East Japan Railway Co. Akabane Station platform in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2018. Customers wait outside the cashierless kiosk, powered by Signpost Corp. on the East Japan Railway Co. Akabane Station platform in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2018. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Kiyoshi Ota. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Kiyoshi Ota. Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Customers wait outside the cashierless kiosk, powered by Signpost Corp. on the East Japan Railway Co. Akabane Station platform in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2018. Customers wait outside the cashierless kiosk, powered by Signpost Corp. on the East Japan Railway Co. Akabane Station platform in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2018. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Kiyoshi Ota. Amazon Go has a real rival in Japan and its stock is soaring 1  /  1 Back to Gallery Amazon.com is betting that stores of the future won’t have any clerks or registers. A company in Japan thinks it can get there first. Signpost Corp., which has a staff of about 100, has already deployed its technology in a kiosk on the platform of a train station in Tokyo. It’s an ideal testing ground: a small space no bigger than a bedroom with dedicated entry and exit points, and commuters in a hurry. The shares of Signpost, which is planning to unveil a product deal with a major… [Read full story]