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by JumpCrisscross 2651 days ago
> the practical solution is to pass a law requiring them to have a machine to load a card with

This wouldn't work with Amazon's grab-and-go vision. If someone loads $5 of cash on a card and walks out with $20 of product, what do you do?

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Same thing as when someone walks in with no cash or card and walks out with $20 worth of product, probably.
AFAIK these stores employ security/loss-prevention (and stockers as well, just not cashiers). There’s people at the door in the videos I saw. How do they stop people from stealing?
Security is enforced inbound. You can't enter without an account. You can grab "anything" you want and it's charged to the account.