Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon
by txcwpalpha on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:04PM
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>But this is real-life shopping, not online. Online shopping is 100% optional. Real-life shopping is not.
What? Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to go shopping? I don't understand this statement. "Real-life shopping" is just as optional as online shopping is. Hell, "real-life shopping" is more optional in this regard because you can always pay with cash and escape the aforementioned privacy concerns. You can't do that online.
Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon
by shadowgovt on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:13PM
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Unless you operate your own farm, sooner or later you need to eat, and that implies you're buying food from somewhere.
> "Real-life shopping" is just as optional as online shopping is.
Really? And how do you get your food if you don't go shopping? Most people can't run a self-sufficient farm.
Gotta eat. Some kind of shopping is essentially non-optional unless you grow all your food.
And using cash isn’t opting out of real-life shopping, it’s just opting out of one payment method.
But this is real-life shopping, not online. Online shopping is 100% optional. Real-life shopping is not.
> Is it just because this one is Amazon and it's fun to hate on them?
No, my criticisms and concerns about this would be no different regardless of what company was doing it.