[Politech] NPR: Computerized grocery cart shocks, horrifies union officials

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 06:12:31 PST

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    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
    
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    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
    
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