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Reply to: Adding insult to injury...

    (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @05:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @05:36AM (#1371327)

    About a week ago, there was a sale on watermelon, so I went to the nearest grocery. It was raining, and, as I always do, I grabbed a cart that was sitting in the parking lot and walked it in, to avoid not finding one available inside. As I walked in I grabbed a paper towel and wiped all the rain off the cart. I tossed the damp towel in the cart.

    When I got to the produce section, I saw that they had sold out all the watermelons. Since there was another store, a mile down the road, I decided to go there immediately - having bought nothing and checked out nothing. But I thought, I will just walk this cart to the cart queue outside, so another customer might find the now dried cart conveniently.

    As I approached the automatic exit doors, the wheels on the cart locked and I couldn't move the cart forward or backward. A red light flashed above the door and an alarm sounded. The AI apparently detected that the used paper towel (which I was going to discard in the bin outside) was being shop-lifted.

    I threw my hands up, abandoned the cart in the doorway, and walked away. To hell with your grocery store!

    The other store did have watermelon (delicious), and did not have cart-disabling hardware/software AI.

    Still, the future look bleaker every day.

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