Submitted 1 hour ago by animemann80@feddit.online to [deleted]
I know in Japan for instance, there’s a unmanned store where you can buy things with the only thing meeting you near the front entrance & exit is self checkout. It’s a trust based system where you walk in select what you want (without locking any essential or mundane item behind plexiglass), as in they depend on individuals having common sense on not stealing paying via a “honesty box” based on a honor system.
Amazon tried and they’re all closed now I believe.
Let’s n8t forget they were lying out of their ass from the very beginning. The “highly advanced AI” that was supposed to detect what items you took turned out to actually be a few hundred indians manually classifying each item.
AI = actual Indians
Depends on what’s being sold and where its at.
People set up honor systems like these for plant seeds, books, wood logs, etc and they all seem to work alright.
I couldn’t see it working well for anything easily resellable (with decent profit) as someone would likely exploit it.
You’re putting a lot of trust in people having an honor system
unmanned store
It’s easy if you are a woman
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No, people would use it as a toilet and not one of those clean ones.
I don’t think there is any legal issue with it. Go take a drive out in the country and you will find farmers with a little stand outside where they put produce out for people to buy every day, and they leave a box got people to put cash into. (And just today, I saw one that took Venmo …)
The real issue might be that it would be impossible to get insurance in some places without an employee minding the store.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Won’t work in most cities.
This is common enough in very small towns not on main highways, though, where everyone knows everyone, and many of them are relatives.