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Amazon Lifts the Lid on New Amazon Go ‘Shoplifting’ Technology
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| Dec 6, 16
| Mathew Hughes
Posted on 12/06/2016 8:56:13 AM PST by jcon40
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posted on
12/06/2016 8:56:13 AM PST
by
jcon40
To: jcon40
3.1 million cashiers are not going to like this.
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posted on
12/06/2016 8:58:10 AM PST
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: jcon40
Retail Loss Prevention guys are gonna LOVE this...NOT!
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posted on
12/06/2016 8:58:50 AM PST
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: jcon40
Inb4systemhackedaccountempty.
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posted on
12/06/2016 8:59:08 AM PST
by
chris37
(It's time to burn the GOP down.)
To: jcon40
Sounds like it basically works like a tollbooth.
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posted on
12/06/2016 8:59:09 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: calljack
Will this work for inner-city flash mob “shoppers”?
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posted on
12/06/2016 8:59:17 AM PST
by
C210N
To: jcon40
The only problem is can somebody basically shield an item from the reader, so it doesn’t pick up the purchase.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:00:57 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: C210N
Will this work for inner-city flash mob shoppers? Not unless they have a credit card.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:01:19 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: jcon40
Security/law enforcement workers are gonna love it. Lots of jobs to catch people coming out of stores without credit/debit cards. Or maybe exits will be fitted with the jaws of death.
To: jcon40
Yeah great, this way the produce folks can ensure you get the rotten stuff first!
No more looking for the latest expiration date on milk jugs?
Surprise! You get the dinged can!
Here’s your steak, with the one inch strip of fat down the center!
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:05:18 AM PST
by
fruser1
To: dfwgator
An automated tollbooth with no toll takers...............
To: fruser1
Made me think of picking up lumber sunday. Some boards are unusable.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:08:39 AM PST
by
Mr. Douglas
(Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
To: fruser1
You still get to select the product you want off the shelves.
To: jcon40
You gotta credit Amazon with thinking outside the box.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:09:48 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
To: jcon40
And more people will “self register” into massive databases. Along with the genealogy hunters, the DNA testers (does “where do I come from?” really matter THAT much?), the coupon and store app users with fine location, and anyone using a “cloud” (ptui) anything.
Anyone who found the chips of “Demolition Man,” or the retina readers of “Minority Report” disconcerting, surely would not use any of these self-registering processes...
tinfoil rant completed.....
KYPD
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:11:28 AM PST
by
petro45acp
(" It IS About Islam: exposing the truth about ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the caliphate" by Glenn Beck)
To: pgkdan
Retail Loss Prevention guys are gonna LOVE this...NOT!I've read where the biggest losses are from the employees themselves.
I've not witnessed it, but my wife has, where a cashier's friend/family will come through the line, and a very expensive item gets bagged, but not scanned. My wife reported it to management.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:13:47 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
To: petro45acp
Ghostery, a tracking blocker, has blocked up to FORTY different companies trying to track me.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:15:31 AM PST
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: jcon40
flash your personal QR code to a reader. Then, you just pick up what you want and walk out.
What if I pick something up, but put it back? What's the threshold that makes a purchase "permanent?"
Also, when do I get a receipt? And what if I get home and there are discrepancies?
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:16:24 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: jcon40
Lightfingered Louie won’t need this app. He’ll just carry on as before.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:18:54 AM PST
by
mumblypeg
(Make America Macho Again.)
To: jcon40
12 years ago I told my computer basics class that everything was already in place (IBM has had the main infrastructure ready to go for many, many years) and that the only thing keeping chip implants from doing this very thing was public perception - implantable chips are too close to the "Number of the Beast" for most folks.
Yet, here we are, ten years and a new generation later, and negative public perception is changing. Won't be long now. Accept the mark, er, the chip, or you WON'T be able to work, buy food, etc.
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posted on
12/06/2016 9:23:35 AM PST
by
dware
(I love waking up in a world with President-elect Trump!)
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