Amazon's checkout-free stores are coming to Toronto and Calgary sports arenas

Toronto and Calgary sports fans will soon be able to skip the lineup when purchasing snacks before or during games.

Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary are spending the fall rolling out Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology allowing some of the venues' stores to offer fans checkout-free shopping — and the Seattle-based e-commerce giant says this is just the beginning.

"You will be seeing more of this in Canada, not only in stadiums, but in all sorts of other environments as well," said Jon Jenkins, vice-president of Just Walk Out at AWS.

"We never release timelines...but it'll be coming very soon."