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Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’ (fortune.com)

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[–] jj4211 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or machine vision to track item pickups and follow the person around the store and out. You may need a cover over the items to have them pause to lift a plastic cover to give the system enough to confidently note that person X has collected item Y and placed it in cart/pocket/prison pocket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nearfield (NFC) was supposed to do this. I was supposed to be able to fill a cart and just push it out the store and be charged.

[–] jj4211 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I remember an at in the 90s of rolling a shopping cart without scanning and here we are 30 years on... Still scanning....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, it's not NFC but Amazon has some convenience stores that can do it, I think there's a limit on the number of items though.

I can just imagine a shopping cart full of NFC transceivers screaming out there serial numbers simultaneously.