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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by asdff on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:26PM (#39911034)
I can't wait for food to be expensive and the ewaste from supplying an rfid chip with every tomato and potato
Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by whyenot on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:30PM (#39911066)
peel off the RFID tags from the expensive vine ripened tomatoes and replace them with tags from the really cheap ones (people already do this with the plastic stickers)
Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by financypants on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:33PM (#39911095)
Even easier to scan organic tomatoes as regular ones, similarly with other fruit/vegetables. The “self check out discount”
Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by kjkjadksj on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:05PM (#39911810)
A buddy of mine would scan meat as bananas in college. Probably saved hundreds.
Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by seattle_spring on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:11PM (#39911859)
Another word for this is "theft"
Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by worried4future on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @08:03PM (#39912176)
Oh no. Jeff will have to make his next yacht 1 foot shorter.

Seriously, I have a hard time caring about this.

Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by Noumenon72 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @09:19PM (#39912654)
Try adding to your "worried4future" list "Decay of the moral norms that make society work."