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		swalsh on Dec 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Go The problem is RFID, while cheap... is not cheap enough. It's still most economical to keep RFID on the case level. It's also really easy to take the RFID tag out of a product. Machine vision is likely the cheaper/more secure approach.

kristofferR on Dec 5, 2016 [–]

This doesn't seem like the kind of store concept where 10c/product would be too expensive.

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