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Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft... by bushbaba on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:57AM (#28405067)
If each item had a unique id. And the stores could indicate unique ids that are stolen. The. Amazon & eBay could monitor and prevent stolen merchandise
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Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft... by nitrogen on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:59AM (#28405097)
Everything is easy if you assume a panopticon.
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Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft... by sneak on Friday September 03, 2021 @01:02PM (#28406706)
We already have the panopticon, we might as well get some fucking benefits from it.

As it is I'm paying both for hard drives in Utah for the NSA to store my contacts and photos and track logs, then again (formerly) for iCloud to do it a second time. It's inefficient.

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Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft... by literallyaduck on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:33PM (#28410169)
You could probably get some milage with just a local store id and date on the box. If you want to get cute you could change the pill stamp.
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