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Re:Amazon Delays Opening of Cashierless Store to Work Out Kinks by jodrellblank on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:22PM (#13973547)
A lot of people will turn up to play basketball, while someone in a bear suit steals things.
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Re:Amazon Delays Opening of Cashierless Store to Work Out Kinks by boulos on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:34AM (#13974572)
It was a gorilla suit, not a bear suit ;):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo

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Re:Amazon Delays Opening of Cashierless Store to Work Out Kinks by arjie on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:47AM (#13975070)
There's a variant with a moonwalking bear which is rather well known: https://youtu.be/Ahg6qcgoay4
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Re:Amazon Delays Opening of Cashierless Store to Work Out Kinks by boulos on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:59AM (#13983543)
Interesting. Your post got me to finally look up the history of this [1]. Apparently it was a woman with an umbrella in a 1975 study, but made extreme by Simons in 1992 with the gorilla. The moonwalking bear is apparently from a 2008 Transport for London advertisement [2] to remind people to see cyclists.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/16/transport-invisib...

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