otaku marketing

[Anonymous No.]

How do you feel about otaku marketing? Will you buy a product just because it has an anime girl printed on it?

[Anonymous No.]

Yeah, pretty much. I like being pandered to.

[Anonymous No.]

Yeah, I think it's pretty sweet. I'd like cute anime girls on more things.

>DISLIKES: Malware, online bullies

[Anonymous No.]

I wouldn't but there are enough people who do. Print a 2hu on something and sell it for 50% more.

[Anonymous No.]

i might be more inclined to

[Anonymous No.]

Only if the girl is a 2hu

[Anonymous No.]

ok, what if you bought sometime online and y ou can have a regular cardboard box OR a cardboard box that had an anime girl printed on it for $5 more, would you pay for it?

[Anonymous No.]

Yeah. She looks like a qt

[Anonymous No.]

Business Otaku here.
/jp/ is part of a rapidly growing age demographic of young, unmarried adults with disposable income. Typically around 20-28, this group is known for being looser with spending and having more income from a lack of significant other or child, so they are more likely to buy entertainment and hobby goods.

So expect more Otaku Culture Pandering as time goes on. Especially here in the West.

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>>11878375
Nope

[Anonymous No.]

depends on what it is really.

e.g. I wouldn't buy a car because it's got touhous artwork on it.
However, I might buy a pack of tissues with cute girls on it to give me something to look at.

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>>11878375
Only if you had a group of cute anime girls with various archetypes so I could buy the box of my favorite girl to show others that she is better than the others.
Don't forget to make a short internet anime to promote it.

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>>11878382
That is really a horrible thing.

Where will i run when 2d moe goes mainstream?

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[Anonymous No.]

I think otaku marketing is stupid but it is absolutely effective.
And yes, I definetily would.

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>>11878331
Does she become happy if I open this site using Internet Explorer?

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>>11878447
of course

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder when will westerns realize the power of otaku marketing.

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>DISLIKES: Malware, online bullies

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>>11878462
hey Inori, pls follow that yuzuko, thanks!

[Anonymous No.]

It's pretty gross when net characters like this are officially made by the company itself to pander to people like me.

It's a lot more genuine and less jewy when the community does it out of genuine love for whatever is anthropomorphized.

[Anonymous No.]

Every story of redemption starts with a first step...

When I realized that I was falling behind my classmates in school, I decided I wanted to do something about it. I worked really hard over the next five years to learn as much as I can from my teachers, mentors, classmates and of course, all of my millions of adorable friends! (。⌒∇⌒)。

And when I was eleven years old, I put all of that knowledge to work and took my first baby step towards redemption. Tabbed browsing, page zooming, search box, RSS support and phishing protection - those are just some of the many, many new awesome skills I learned and put into practice that year.

I'm soooo proud of the progress I've made. However, there is still much to learn! I won't give up until I become the very, very best again! *(≧▽≦)*

[Anonymous No.]

Are you guys seriously using this browser just because of a 2D girl? Jesus fuck Micro$oft sure hit bullseye with this.

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>>11878493
what do you expect. you're a bunch of autist waifu havin yiff masturbating motherfuckers who'll eat this shit up without quandry

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>>11878510
I don't think Microsoft will gain anything from this in the long run. We spent nearly a decade telling everyone and their mom what a piece of fucking shit Internet Explorer is. Personally, I don't think there's even a slight chance of this mindset ever going away after such throughout brainwashing, just because they have their personal loli persona now (in Japan, anyway; we all know Japan is behind the times when it comes to the interbutt)

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>>11878510
I will post it again.
>DISLIKES: online bullies

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>>11878510
I will post it again.
>DISLIKES: online bullies

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>>11878498
I thought it was really cute because I thought you were talking about yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

It's not even that cute, it's just mostly a homepage and doesn't have any VO work or anything.

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>>11878476
translate it, weaboos

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>>11878498
Cute. Still not going to use it.

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>>11878537
I downloaded it just to see what it changed. Just the homepage.

Then the browser froze so there you go.

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>>11878394
Turn to a more obscure art style than moe.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder when will the government start to use otaku propaganda.

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>>11878534
I'll translate only the most important sentence. "Don't be deceived by the bunny moe character!"

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>>11878533
It has a voice collection and desktop theme.
Click Downloads and Goodies under "About Inori"

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>>11878375
No. Cardboard boxes don't last very well, and are stylish like 1% of the time.

>>11878510
Why the f*** would I? Is it actually a good browser? Up to now IE sucked. You can't fix something that sucks by repackaging it. Let me s--
>>11878539
Oh, alright. No.

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>>11878534
>>11878476

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/asian-technology/japanese-government-warns-baidu-ime-is-spying-on-users/

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>>11878611
would you mind the NSA spying on you if they used a cute anime girl as their mascot?

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>>11878640

It would only make me want to take more pictures of my penis.

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>>11878382

What is a business otaku and isn't /jp/ full of meets?

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>>11878358

man, i want some dcarlet devil homebrew...

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder how the person updating her facebook looks like.

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>>11878821
Knowing Microsoft, it's probably an entire committee of people.

[Anonymous No.]

The theme voices are awful, don't use it.

[Anonymous No.]

I took her out for a test run for a couple of months. She's fast, faster than Firefox, but she lacks the add-ons of other browsers and some pretty basic functionality. You can't just highlight a url and right click it to open it, and there's no paste & go option for the address bar. Also, she break flash. I wanted to like her, I really did, but she just isn't as good as her peers.

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>>11878331
Only if the product is functional.

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The only mascot IE needs

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>>11879607
That's a logo

[Anonymous No.]

She's not a very bright girl. Is anything about her even Japanese? Wikipedia says she was created by MS Singapore and I can only find work by her artist in English.

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>>11878582
P-p-p-please promote cultural diversity with me, kudasai!

Shishishi~ buy war bonds, you stupid goyim~

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>>11879642
Well that would make sense because English is the official language of that company.

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>>11879739
That doesn't mean it's the language of the artist that made her. Looking through Collateral Damage Studio's site further shows them attending a lot of events in Singapore and their facebook page says "Heavily influenced by Japanese comics and animation". So no, unlike Nanami, it seems nothing about IE-tan is Japanese. You can also thank everyone's favorite otakool dude Danny Choo for her inspiration.

http://www.collateralds.com/news/random/the-story-of-aizawa-inori/

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>>11878331
>How do you feel about otaku marketing?
I hate it. It feels sterile and it makes the subculture more accessible. It's like the intimate fan aspect has died and been replaced by the usual corporate antics, commoditizing passion, community, and work into yet another shallow social game of have and have-not.

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Holy shit, her facebook is too cute.

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>>11879836

I miss Nanami.
I still use her sounds, though.

[Anonymous No.]

I liked silverlight

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>>11880218
I used her sounds on my old computer. Did they ever make more?

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>>11878584
>bunny

Where the fuck are you even reading that? It clearly says honeytrap.

[Anonymous No.]

Inori is very hot and cute, but is an air headed dumb arrogant bitch, is the kind of girl you would date and/or have an affair but just until you get a better and more respectable girl.

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>>11880341
Inari beats Inori eh

[Anonymous No.]

I don't think this browser respects me freedom...

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>>11880341
>is the kind of girl you would date and/or have an affair but just until you get a better and more respectable girl.
I don't know that feel...

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>>11880385
Who cares?

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>>11880362
of course!

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>>11880304
I liked Hikaru.

[Anonymous No.]

>Aizawa Inori
>Ai I
>IE
ohhh

[Anonymous No.]

Somewhat.
It won't make me use garbage like IE, especially when I can skin the fuck out of FF to cover it in animu.
But I really liked the Miku Toyota Ad, and I loved Win7-Tan.

[Anonymous No.]

Though I love GuP, using moe to push patriotism and military interests worries me.

[Anonymous No.]

There's another new Kyoto subway character now (right). I don't understand the choice of design. The original mascot was already a gyaru and now they add a sporty super gyaru?

[Anonymous No.]

Forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.]

Why I want to know is why the Singapore branch of MS went ahead and made a Japanese character instead. Wouldn't you normally expect that they'd make a Singaporean character instead?

[Anonymous No.]

While MS Singapore is pandering to weeaboos, who are Mozilla pandering to?

https://blog.mozilla.org/creative/2013/12/16/2013-in-review-such-logo/

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>>11881126
>Singaporean character
There is nothing you could define a 'Singaporean character' around simply because Singaporean culture is such a mishmash.
Japanese animation styles provided a easily accessible and popular base with which to build 'Inori Aizawa' off from.
Plus Singapore has thousands of weebs so it seems some of them got a job at MS.

[4Pq* No.]

Walk in see this wat do.

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>>11881065
I'm not sure you're using 'moe' right.

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>>11878331
fugly pic dude

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>>11881161
>There is nothing you could define a 'Singaporean character' around simply because Singaporean culture is such a mishmash.
It’s the name m8. Could’ve just given her some English name + Hokkien surname. Or Malay or whatever.

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>>11881200
What?

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>>11881065

Let Japan have its pretend military.

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>>11881194
Turn CC into a loli and eat her pizza.

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I feels somewhat annoying, how they can go to such lengths for selling more. But its worse on videogames.

And depends on the product and the girl.
I wouldn't buy an electric toothbrush just because it has a cute Remilia on it.


>>11878462
>Imocho confirms Yuri is present too.
Don't you say.

[Anonymous No.]

Enjoy pizza with Yayoi

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>>11881248
You won't be laughing when you see this coming at you.

>>11881253
I'm going to guess in pretty much every code geass douijin Lelouch is using his gaess to make girls do sexual things. But who has the gayass that can turn girls into lolis?

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>>11881258

That's just a garage kit

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>>11881260
This is a real Japanese air force helicopter.

Are you kowaii yet gaijin?

[Anonymous No.]

fuck no, I would just end up getting lumped with "otaku"/weeabo's.
maybe if it's something tasteful like a macro of a generic animu girl, not if it's something licensed or made in collaboration with a well-known anime (Attack Of The Titans,Naruto,etc.)
I think Microsoft is starting to get desperate after trying to win over the "90's kids"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6RJf15cg
>>11878510
weeabo's probably would.
>>11878582
Japan would
>buy war bonds so that our autistic kids can pilot huge mechs!

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>>11881065
I thought I posted this...
I saw this on a subway in Kyoto.
Isn't this made by MMD?

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>>11881266
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6RJf15cg

Damn this is bad. MS ads have always been bad/corny in general though.

I wish they started focusing on actually producing good software and improving it, instead of just relying on anti-competiveness and jewing every last shekel they can out of everything. Your stuck with a file manager that doesn't have tabs, no support for common standard network protocols, support for a select few file systems, the default text editor is a horrible joke, default web browser is horrible, default image editor is horrible, the default terminal emulator is horrible, the CLI is extremely horrible to the point of being useless, there's relatively no configuration you do with the OS as it's that locked-down and inflexible, file permissions are a horrible clusterfuck, default image viewer is horrible, the default everything with Windows is pretty much horrible and needing to be replaced with an alternative. It's almost amazing really.

It's what I am referring to when I say that they don't even bother improving their software. They don't care about improving their software, software improvements are dangerous changes that cost them money, they only care about scraping it along to keep it alive. They've let it all rot, and continue thinking it will be okay because their desktop marketshare keeps third-party proprietary software devs often supporting their platform first, along with the legacy of windows-centric software they've left behind, and OEM preinstalls. I cannot say they're wrong, as it really has worked, strictly from a business perspective, but certainly not in terms of producing good software and furthering the advancement of technology.

They decide to create complete walled garden abominations like WindowsRT and Windows Phone instead though.

>tasteful

https://perplexitees.spreadshirt.com/madotsuki-s-shirt-v2-vector-2x-red-edge-A12734522

Would you wear it?

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>>11881065
>Not liking people that are proud of their nation and military
Why?

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>>11881256
I will buy anything endorsed by Yayoi.

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>>11881316
Even move to nippon to order from Pizza-La?

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>>11881310
There are too many right wing manchildren here who would be swayed by such adverts. The presence of these gullible, easily manipulated underclasses make it easy for people with ulterior motives to incite conflict for their own benefit.

Though, China has many more.

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>>11881320
I don't want to be a bwaka gaijin, if they sold it here I would buy it.

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>>11881306
I really like the subtle designs of perplexi tees
would wear.

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>>11878462
>background is full of errors
Just like the real IE

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>>11881371
That’s a en error in a webserver, nothing to do with IE.

[ヘンリエッタ !b.iTP1Qti. No.]

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>>11881441
I would buy these just because of the anime girl.

Assuming they weren't ridiculously expensive and tasted okay.

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>>11881441
It would be too embarrassing to buy.

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>>11881784
Who cares?
Just use self check-out.

I'd totally buy animu oranges

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>>11879554
Quick access belt is so improper for a girl.

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>>11881321
There are too many left-wing manwomen advpcating cultural
suicide and nihilism with fear of authority.
/ JP/ is "Japan" and "Jewish pride"' both of these nations acknowledge their cultural and ethnic unity and heritage!

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>>11881441
so cute

[ヘンリエッタ !b.iTP1Qti. No.]

>>11882065
How to import PureSpect oranges?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11882099
>>11882065
>>11881441
the oranges tastes like her pussy

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>>11882107
Why would want to eat her cat?

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>>11882099
>california orange

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>>11882124
Kawaii desu ka

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>>11878462
I see emulator on one of the signs

they support emulation? don't a lot of people use that to illegally play games though? pretty interesting choice

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>>11881306
Liked, faved and subscribed. Do you have a twitter I can follow?

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>>11882240
That was actually a quality informative post, unlike yours or mine.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11882254
You forgot your name

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>>11882240
/jp/ is his twitter. 99% of the time he uses it for shitposting but every now and then he'll write something that isn't obviously retarded.

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>>11878331
It's just marketing and if the underlying product is shit, such as Internet Explorer, it's fucking useless.

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>>11882107
I mean her manko

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>>11878382
Do you mean business otaku as in you have an obsession with business or are you an otaku that works in business?

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>>11881220
>English name + Hokkien surname. Or Malay or whatever
>captcha: repugnance mberatii

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>>11878331

I'm more likely to take a look at something if it does have otakuish themes to it. However, it's just marketing. If a product doesn't give me any tangible or direct benefits then I won't buy it. If there's a better product out there then I'll use that instead regardless of marketing.

Quite often most otaku themed advertising whose primary audience is non-japanese is aimed at the weeaboo/entry level spergs whom I'd rather not associate myself with. This will actually cause me to be far less likely to buy or use a product directly attributed to my disdain for that part of the fanbase that which I don't want to associate with.

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>>11882651
elitism

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>>11882654

>elitism

Yep, and I love it.

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>>11879635
>>11879607
Rekd

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>>11878382
ur mum is loose

[Anonymous No.]

>falling for the neoteny marketing

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>>11883580
Who are you quoting?

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>>11881134
>who are Mozilla pandering to?
furfag

>>11882238
probably meant compatibility settings for sites designed for older IE.

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>>11878331
>How do you feel about otaku marketing?
I interpret it as a big "BEWARE WEEABOOS AHEAD AVOID AT ALL COSTS" warning sign when encountered on western internets.

>Will you buy a product just because it has an anime girl printed on it?
No, but I'm far more likely to download it though. You don't want to know how many terabytes of traffic and gigabytes of HDD I've wasted on anime girls (and no, I'm not even talking about anime here).
They're pretty and I like pretty things.

[Anonymous No.]

>How do you feel about otaku marketing?
Not working pretty well, if you ask me.

>Will you buy a product just because it has an anime girl printed on it?
I've always did. Are you an idiot?

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>>11884251
>I've always did. Are you an idiot?
I could ask you the same question.

[Anonymous No.]

I still use IE for stuff that requires payments because noscript tends to make sone websites stop functioning.

Inori edition doesn't is no different other than giving you a bunch of bookmarks of her favorite websites and changing your homepage...

[Anonymous No.]

At least she's not a paperclip.

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>>11881812
>Just use self check-out.
What's that?

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>>11882099
Those arms

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>>11884346
Most major retailers in the US have automated registers where you can scan and bag your own goods without someone working as a cashier.
This way you don't even have to talk to anyone when you go out shopping.

I can buy all the lube I want at CVS with no awkward small-talk.

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>>11878331