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    The Future of Shopping

    New York- I think this will be part of it- Paying a balance to get in to curb stealing...

    https://twitter.com/washghost1/status/1936947841215127590


    I will be back to post my opinion of the future.

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    I am really behind the times and old school. Still puzzled by prepaying on phone for instance to get dunkin donuts. Also found out there are no physical tickets for the baseball game. Going to Yankees game with the wife on Sunday. Don't even get me started on scanning the bar codes. Wheel of Fortune you have to swipe bar code to play from home.

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    My vision on the future of grocery shopping- I see the modern grocery store (Vons, Ralphs, Albertson's, Stater Bros, etc) sealing off the access to the isles and customers ordering on their phones and picking up their prepared boxes OR driving around the back and going through a drive-through type lane. Less and less, the companies are going to not trust the shopper to walk through the brick and mortar stores.

    WHY- Retail thief is on the rise. My local store in LA County closes and locks the north doors every night and the managers tell me petty thief is common. The self check out lines are being removed now due to the losses.

    I also see more and move home delivery coming in the future. All of this is so curtail the physical stealing in the brick and mortar stores, they simply just cant keep these losses up every week.

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    Split and I are excited about the advances in AI and surveillance tech. There’s nothing you can do.

    I dunno about shitholes like LA but the colleges around Boston often use it on campus. It’s good surveillance society indoctrination for the kiddos

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    Although severing theft is a good goal, AI is going to decimate society. NWO is coming, Bible prophecy is real.

    When the majority of jobs are taken over by AI, some real shit is gonna go down. That is when ‘the gift’ of free living by the antichrist is mandatory.

    Refuse this at cost of life.

     
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      The Boz: No jobs? Just gives Sonatine more justification to sit on his fat ass all day.
    Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by splitthis View Post
    Although severing theft is a good goal, AI is going to decimate society. NWO is coming, Bible prophecy is real.

    When the majority of jobs are taken over by AI, some real shit is gonna go down. That is when ‘the gift’ of free living by the antichrist is mandatory.

    Refuse this at cost of life.
    Just spent 10 minutes kibitzing with Vegas daughter about “just walk out” and store surveillance and surveillance generally. Her consistent reaction to my boomer privacy concerns are met with “it too late” and “there’s nothing you can do”. Privacy isn’t in the top 100 of her life concerns. Generation gap. Her generation would literally help build the panopticon like an Amish barn raising. So yeah.

    Whatever future you foresee compress that timeline 10x she instructs me

    She will remember pops tilting at privacy windmills while she pays for her jaywalking ticket generated from a camera with CBDC

    @Sonatine
    She last worked for SevenRooms which was just acquired by DoorDash. (I detest the food delivery concept so big irony) She now rolls up to a 35 year old chick who was an Amazon VP and the schemes being discussed are wild. At an all hands sorta meeting my kid told her origin story that began at the Venetian gift shop register and this women fell in love. They have kindred backgrounds with similar luckbox run good.

    Meet the 35-year-old tech exec helping chart DoorDash’s future—after a rapid rise to become one of Amazon’s youngest female VPs
    https://fortune.com/2025/05/29/doord...s-acquisition/

    She’s spending $10k to get rid of some of her sleeve tattoos from the Zappos days lol

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    This is where we’re at right now-


     
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      1dollarboxcar: dear Lord, please , please stop using that tapatalk BS...

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    Retail thief is on the rise with self check out scanners- swapping scanner tags.

    https://twitter.com/shane7777ssss/status/1943094097062789455
    Last edited by desertrunner; 07-10-2025 at 01:07 PM.

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    The future of shopping- as these flash mobs continue to rob and steal from the has stations and convenience stores, eventually the stores will close permanently or it will be buy and carry at a front window only...

    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1970678322821833103

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    Quote Originally Posted by desertrunner View Post
    Retail thief is on the rise with self check out scanners- swapping scanner tags.

    https://twitter.com/shane7777ssss/status/1943094097062789455


    I just saw this now. Infuriating to watch.

    They need to tase the non-pregnant one, arrest her, then arrest the pregnant one.

    One with theft and resisting arrest, the other with obstruction.

    This is ridiculous, and is the result of 11 years of unfairly vilifying the police.


    Here's the full video btw (doesn't embed for some reason, just click on it)


     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    his is ridiculous, and is the result of 11 years of unfairly vilifying the police.



    imo, this is the result of cashless bail, endless probation, no jail time for anything, and criminal justice reform. basically, they are no longer afraid of the consequences and conditioned to push back against cops.


    in ga, at the point that this got to she would be charged with obstruction with violence and if convicted would face up to 20 years. and yes, i have seen our judges sentence for that long on that charge, though the testimony was certainly more than you see in this video, it merely equals what you find on twitter all day long.


    now in some left states you can be arrested with kilos of drugs or their equivalent and make bail that same night. as if drug dealer/mule cares about the money as he flees south.


    just more examples of the death throes of a dying empire.

     
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    can i still uber eats mikes hard lemonades at 12 01 am on saturdays

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    When retail theft is on the rise, the first question you should ask is why?

    Are the gainfully employed unhappy?
    Could it be thrill seeking CEOS?
    Most likely it is the disadvantaged.

    When housing and medical care are unaffordable due to a profit based doctrine
    basic survival kicks in.

    When a country with the most billionaires and millionaires targets social services (including cuts to Veterans Affairs services) as finacial problems then you get what you deserve.

    Look no further than the demolition of the east wing of the White House, to be replaced by a 300 million dollar(estimate) ballroom as the ultimate hypocrasy
    "The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
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    Oh look, its the usual suspects, the 13% of the country again...



    https://ktla.com/news/local-news/big...RqBJRPfPaHsGzQ

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    Just start sentencing people harshly for shit like this, and recall all of the woke DAs who refuse to charge anyone stealing less than $900 worth of merchandise.

    As I've said many times, ignore race. That's not important here. Policy and enforcement is important. Aggressively arrest and charge all perps, and whatever race they are will be irrelevant. They'll be in prison where they belong, regardless of how the demographics break out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Just start sentencing people harshly for shit like this, and recall all of the woke DAs who refuse to charge anyone stealing less than $900 worth of merchandise.

    As I've said many times, ignore race. That's not important here. Policy and enforcement is important. Aggressively arrest and charge all perps, and whatever race they are will be irrelevant. They'll be in prison where they belong, regardless of how the demographics break out.
    Ignore Race

    Shut the fuck up Druff what do you think 'Black Lives Matters' Was all about, and all the prejudice bias in America now????

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