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Re:Amazon Go by gohrt on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:44AM (#13106690)
> because somebody would be able to steal a product by discreetly removing a tag and then walking out of the store.

That's already handled in grocery -- people can mess with regular barcodes if they want. it's a known cost of business

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Re:Amazon Go by altcognito on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:15PM (#13107016)
And if they know who you are because of your phone, and they are doing inventory on a really regular basis (every 6 hours, maybe even less), they might actually be able to track down who it was.
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