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A faux Amazon commercial introduces a cashierless grab-and-go store, but Black shoppers are hilariously suspicious that the whole setup is a trap.
Saturday Night Live
Commercial Parody
technology
Retail
Racial Satire

I'm learning.
A commercial advertises a new grab-and-go shopping experience.

The sketch parodies Amazon Go's walk-out shopping technology with a sleek ad that promises customers can simply take items and leave. While the store's white shoppers accept the premise easily, Black customers repeatedly hesitate, question the surveillance, try to pay anyway, or assume they are being baited into shoplifting charges. The comedy builds from the contrast between the tech company's frictionless-shopping pitch and the shoppers' lived experience of being watched in stores and policed for ordinary behavior.

Uploaded by Saturday Night Live on March 13, 2022 with the description 'A commercial advertises a new grab-and-go shopping experience.' The YouTube tags/description tie it to SNL47, host Zoë Kravitz, and musical guest Rosalía. Audience comments particularly singled out Andrew Dismukes's quiet line 'I'm learning' as a memorable moment.

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