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nine_k on Jan 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy I...

Unfortunately, reasonable customer-oriented space is much more expensive than a (semi-robotic) dimly lit warehouse somewhere on the industrial outskirts of a city.

WalterSear on Jan 17, 2014 [–]

It's worse than that. Apparently, you need to hire people to stand around all day and run cash registers.

They should go back to the drone delivery plans, they were more thoroughly thought out.

specialist on Jan 17, 2014 | [–]

My grocer has self-checkout.

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