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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[–] 24 points 19 hours ago

I’m a retail manager. I’ve managed a lot of places.

One thing I’ve always said is “we could probably leave a bucket here for everyone to pay as they left. 9 out of ten people would be honest, the tenth tho would take the whole bucket.”

I don’t think it would work in America. Also with current events I no longer feel 9 of the ten would be trustworthy anymore.

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