Picking apples and oranges: New quality check comes to grocery shops

Amazon Fresh says its application to check freshness of fruits, vegetables on Indian shelves has opportunities abroad

In Sainikpuri, a neighbourhood in Northeast Hyderabad, Amazon Fresh worker Rohit Kumar is picking up fruits and vegetables at a grocery store. He takes out his phone and scans the produce with an app called Johari to identify defects like cuts and cracks.

“Johari app helps us a lot in minimising the time taken for sorting and grading as it does half the work for us by identifying defects,” said Kumar about his work for the fresh grocery delivery service. 
 

Johari is part of a store shelf-monitoring solution (a machine learning-powered quality assurance system for fresh produce) that Amazon India unveiled