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A Boring Dystopia
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"You didn't have what I wanted at a price-point I found acceptable, but that's all right - I came prepared with full camping gear and my own sleeping bag. Don't worry about it - you'll hardly notice me sticking around, possibly for ever."
Yeah never purchase and you can never leave. Just beg for food from those that want to leave desperately enough. They get their receipt and you get their items.
And you repay the establishment for the inconvenience of your unlawful imprisonment by advertising their special services to all the other visiting patrons. That seems fair.
I mean, I do have to wonder how many people with physical or mental disabilities are effectively just going to be trapped in here.
Also get the sense that they'll have more and more and more and more and more security in and around the building as younger people start passing around exploits in the security setup.
Well, I mean, even if the thing has access to a shared PoS DB using properly randomized, sufficiently long and non-sequential transaction tokens, it's still deliciously susceptible to simple malicious compliance: Find the cheapest single item carried by the store, fill up an entire basket with them sumbitches, line up each item separated by a divider and insist on a receipt for each separate transaction to "prepare for any future need to check if the store carries anything i actually want while maintaining strict compliance with store policies". Then, head outside and start distributing whatever it is for free to other prospective customers and use that to strike up a conversation about the recent changes. You never know. People might get ideas.
Which means you're going to have security guards checking receipts, not unlike at Krogers or Costco.
And I'm sure they're very aggressive with anyone who looks criminally young or tan.
You've got security guards at Kroger?
Just about all we've got. Like, three store cops for every one clerk.
Here in LA, we have security guards at virtually every store: grocery, liquor, convenience...as well as fast food restaurants.