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This whole article is a fucking advert for glorified vending machines.
Written by AI
TL;DR - Instead of locking shit up in a cabinet you need an employee to open, dude wants to use vending machines (that he sells) so you can just buy the stuff without waiting around.
Honestly not a bad idea. Trying to find the only employee with the key to a locked cabinet is fucking annoying and wastes so much time. They often have a call button, but in my experience nobody fucking comes anyway
Thanks, I’m not going to read a glorified ad ….. not a bad idea though.
The company I work at has something like this in IT. If you need something simple like a cable or new mouse or headphones ….. instead of opening a ticket and making an appointment and trying to chase down the IT who’s supposed to be at the appointment, you just use the vending machine. In this case, scan your badge and it spits out the thing. I’m sure they keep track of it somewhere but it’s so nice to just get the theming instead of going through all the hassle
Useful unless you just want to look at the item more closely (read the back of the box or whatever before you purchase.
honestly not the worst idea for some smaller high priced items
Great, so now they can fire all their on-site staff and force their customers to use some shitty, proprietary app/software that 100% grabs as much of their personal data as possible. All while the only people who save money in the long run is the corporation that puts these in, and the company selling it to them.
I'm sure the corpos that install these will lower their prices once they recoup the losses they have from the stealing right?....right?...
The cyberpunk corpo dystopia is upon us already.
Man, capitalists will do literally anything to not pay people more money. You know people steal cause shit is expensive and they don't have a lot of disposable income to waste on stuff right? Why inconvenience everyone. Pay people more and hire more workers.
Also cause the propaganda to get people to "want" stuff is so effective they start stealing just to have it.
If you think the people filling trash bags with laundry detergent is because they just can't afford it because it's too expensive, you're not living in reality
Why else? They don't think it's "worth it" because they only have so much money to go around and they don't want to waste it on bullshit like needlessly expensive laundry detergent compared to their salary.
When a bottle of detergent is 2/3 your hourly wage why the hell wouldn't you want to steal some if you could?
When a bottle of detergent is 2/3 your hourly wage why the hell wouldn’t you want to steal some if you could?
Lol you think these people have jobs...
Am I the only one that read the title as the innovator was actually a shoplifter but they made a life decision to stop and instead invent an anti-theft device?
Was he doing research for his invention, is this just a ploy to help him steal more down the track from his own devices, was he visited by 3 ghosts during the night just before Christmas and have a change of heart?
The video showed people breaking glass displays to rob a store; how do these vending machines prevent that issue?
The article says that some retailers are interested in customizing the machines with bullet proof glass.
That's not exactly the vending machines being a solution then, is it?
Just read the fucking article next time
“Ashforth showed us how it works: you pay in advance online or at an in-store kiosk.” Aaannndddd you’ve just re-invented going to someone with a key to go unlock something. It does look to be a bit better, but considering half of the point they where making was allowing ease of ‘obtainablity’ to customers, you still need to go to someone to ask them for the item.
Honestly, give it about 30 minutes after implementation and people will have figured out how shoplift.
I don’t get what this solves…
It solves a stagnant demand for vending machines and gives a made up growth path for him to take to their investors.
This sounds terrible. If I can't pick up a product and look at the packaging for specs or ingredients before deciding which item to pick, why wouldn't I buy online instead? This is a great way for retail to finally cut one of their last benefits.
But if the merchandise is already locked up anyway, this device saves customers from having to find someone with a key.
