Comment by gwern

This is a bad submission because Boing Boing heavily editorializes, and is at least 2 levels removed from the actual reporting at this point - the editorialized Boing Boing excerpts, the editorialized Gizmodo article, The Information article, whatever the sources leaked to TI as a friendly outlet, and then the truth. And there are people on Twitter disputing the insinuations that the human workers were watching you as you shop, which would bespeak a true level of failure, or just reviewing stuff afterwards, which would surprise no one.