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Re:Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for... by ForHackernews on Sunday July 07, 2019 @07:00PM (#20378554)
I wonder if they're using Mechanical Turkers to review the video footage.
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Re:Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for... by dankohn1 on Sunday July 07, 2019 @09:07PM (#20379150)
It's a variable latency of 15 minutes to 2 hours to get the receipt, so that's certainly my assumption.
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Re:Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for... by tylerhou on Sunday July 07, 2019 @11:21PM (#20379645)
High latency can just mean Amazon is processing video in batches. It doesn’t imply Turk.
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