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.

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[–] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

I imagine in mob-controlled neighborhoods, in cities, where everyone knows who owns the store and no one would dare steal from it, it would work. But, that might be fiction.

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