I know in Japan for instance, there’s a unmanned store where you can buy things with the only thing meeting you near the front entrance & exit is self checkout. It’s a trust based system where you walk in select what you want (without locking any essential or mundane item behind plexiglass), as in they depend on individuals having common sense on not stealing paying via a “honesty box” based on a honor system.
Amazon tried and they’re all closed now I believe.
Let’s n8t forget they were lying out of their ass from the very beginning. The “highly advanced AI” that was supposed to detect what items you took turned out to actually be a few hundred indians manually classifying each item.
AI = actual Indians
ALways indians.
Isn’t IONNA using their tech now? Or at least they are using some similar tech.
Ha! I forgot about that! Fucking hilarious🤣
It wasn’t closed due to theft afaik. It used a bunch of computers to charge you for things you left with, replacing a cashier
they half assed, and died at the beginning of covid. even thier “competitor” to WF kinda died out.