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		ForHackernews on July 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashi... I wonder if they're using Mechanical Turkers to review the video footage.

dankohn1 on July 8, 2019 [–]

It's a variable latency of 15 minutes to 2 hours to get the receipt, so that's certainly my assumption.

tylerhou on July 8, 2019 | [–]

High latency can just mean Amazon is processing video in batches. It doesn’t imply Turk.

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