The first Whole Foods with Just Walk Out is beautiful. Just don't look up.

With its neon signs and pops of teal and mustard yellow, the newly reopened Whole Foods Market in Washington, D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood is so gorgeous that it’s almost possible to miss the hundreds of small cameras hanging down from the ceiling.

But look up and there they are — the digital tentacles that help power parent company Amazon's Just Walk Out cashier-less technology that’s been newly added to the natural and organic store at 2323 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

The Glover Park store, which reopened on Feb. 23 after a nearly five-year-long closure, marks the first Whole Foods to offer Just Walk Out. A second Whole Foods in Sherman Oaks, California, is slated to roll out the technology later this year.

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