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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I've seen similar in Canada (though not fully public), but never saw anything like that in ~25yrs in the US. I think US culture is too greedy for it.

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