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Title: You Can't Leave Unless You Buy Something

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/07/2382...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: At the Safeway on San
Francisco's King Street, you now can't leave the store unless you buy
something. The Mission Bay grocery store recently installed new anti-theft
measures at the entrance and exit. New gates at the entrance automatically
swing open when customers walk in, but they're set to trigger an alarm if
someone attempts to back out. And if you walk into Safeway and change your
mind about grocery shopping, you might find yourself trapped: Another gate
that only opens if you scan your receipt blocks the store's sole exit. During
my Monday visit, I purchased a kombucha and went through the check-out line
without incident. (No high-tech gates block the exit if you go through the
line like normal.) But for journalism's sake, I then headed back into the
store to try going out the new gate. While I watched some customers struggle
with the new technology, my receipt scanned immediately. The glass doors slid
open, and I was free. But if, like this person on the San Francisco subreddit
recounted, I hadn't bought anything, my only means of exit would have been to
beg the security guard to let me out.

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