Joe McIntosh wrote:

Local Wall Mart opened and had to replace 30% of their insider cashiers
within a month. They were not scanning some items or changing prices to
benefit their friends. Now the store has mounted small cameras above each
cash register to help eliminate this problem.
Perhaps we should be ****ed off with our citizenry.

This problem could be solved with those radio-frequency-emitting
microchips that are apparently going to start finding their way into all
consumer merchandise (among other things) over the next few years. Done
right, the manufacturer, shipper, and retailer could use the things for
supply chain management, but they would be turned off permanently when
scanned at the register. Any that weren't disabled would set off an
alarm at the exit of the store (and could even be traced afterward).

Trick, of course, is being sure the "turned off permanently" bit is
enforced.

JR