Why am I reminded of the petition of the French candlemakers, who argued that sunlight unfairly hurts candlemakers? http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html Based on this summary, at least, the Massachusetts union officials are just as self-serving and hostile to shoppers as the protectionist bureaucrats of Bastiat's day. -Declan --- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:58:53 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@private> Groceries Test High-Tech Shopping A Northeast grocery store chain tests the Shopping Buddy, a computerized cart that's winning rave reviews from customers. The device remembers shopping lists and gives final-cost totals of the cart's contents. But Massachusetts union officials believe the high-tech cart could cost a lot of grocery store workers their jobs. Pippin Ross reports. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1528218 http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2&prgDate=01-Dec-2003 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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