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Why automate? Pay someone to open the box and check.


Cost of multiple shifts at multiple locations + cost of implementing verification process + cost of security and oversight + cost of extra inventory loss due to employee theft

vs

Cost of negative image (deferred via simple returns) + cost of inventory loss duo to fraud + cost of inventory loss due to employees

It's simpler to simply eat the cost of abuse.


And now the (possibly fake) security seal is definitely broken, so "probably new" becomes "definitely used"




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