(Source: Motherboard, October 24, 2017)
NEW YORK — Trying to codify and organize things is really hard. Case in point: When Amazon tried to launch a cashier-free grocery store concept late last year, the company saw a lot of problems crop up when too many customers used the store at the same time. On a macro level, the railroad industry once faced similar problems with automatically tracking things — a problem it started working on 60 years ago, without the benefits of modern innovation.
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