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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by arcticbull on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @08:04PM (#39912187)
Sounds like fake-it-till-you-make-it stuff right? This is exactly how I would bootstrap a startup that wanted to do this.
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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by meowface on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @10:23PM (#39913002)
It's the epitome of "do things that don't scale". (Just, after enough years and size, you eventually need to scale.)
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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by schnable on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @10:55PM (#39913170)
"Scrappy" on a massive budget. Must have been fun to work at these tech companies when money was cheap!
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