Starbucks Links With Amazon Go for First Cashier-Less Cafe

A scanner at an entrance turnstile of a new Starbucks store, its first-ever in partnership with Amazon Go that lets customers check out without a cashier, is pictured during a preview of the store which opens on November 18, 2021, on Manhattan's East side in New York City, N.Y., on Nov. 16, 2021. Mike Segar/Reuters

NEW YORK—Starbucks Corp.’s newest cafe lacks one element most customers are used to seeing: cashiers.

The global coffee chain on Thursday opened its first ever location in partnership with Amazon Go, the e-commerce giant’s brick-and-mortar convenience store, where customers can sit at a table with a latte or grab a sandwich from a shelf and walk out.