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Then the practical solution is to pass a law requiring them to have a machine to load a card with, not banning them outright. This policy is needlessly destruc
by morningmoon 8y ago
Then the practical solution is to pass a law requiring them to have a machine to load a card with, not banning them outright.
This policy is needlessly destructive.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> the practical solution is to pass a law requiring them to have a machine to load a card with This wouldn't work with Amazon's grab-and-go vision. If someone loads $5 of cash on a card and walks out with $20 of product, what do you do?
- morningmoon 8y agoAFAIK these stores employ security/loss-prevention (and stockers as well, just not cashiers). There’s people at the door in the videos I saw. How do they stop people from stealing?
- michaelvmata 8y agoSecurity is enforced inbound. You can't enter without an account. You can grab "anything" you want and it's charged to the account.
- kazinator 8y agoSame thing as when someone walks in with no cash or card and walks out with $20 worth of product, probably.
- zeropnc 8y agoTypical Silicon Valley Catholic Church-style moral scorched Earth approach.
- sctb 8y agoCould you please not post this kind of flamebait and comment substantively instead? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zeropnc 8y agoThe Silicon Valley has a deeply rooted holier-than-thou complex, mixed with a tendency to overreact and overcompensate (some might call it “scorched Earth”), leading many observers to surmise a similarity between today’s California and the Catholic Church of the Dark Ages.
- kuschku 8y agoThey'd only ban cashless stores, if Amazon would offer the option you suggest, they wouldn't be cashless anymore, and therefore allowed.
- wyldfire 8y agoThat is reasonable but it might also be more than Amazon's willing to bear. It costs money to handle cash and it's more work to stock and flush these machines. Amazon may have a business case for these stores that depends on paying the relatively small merchant fee to credit card networks and knowing that they don't have any burden of handling any cash.
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- hedora 8y agoIf you read the article carefully, no one is suggesting banning what you propose (though a machine that makes exact change at checkout seems better). The article is clickbait.
- kazinator 8y agoPeople who avoid banking by choice will might not go for a card to load cash with. To them, that's going to look like a bank.