Venezuela: Mandatory Fingerprinting At Grocery Stores

[Joe]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday that the country will introduce a mandatory fingerprinting system in supermarkets. He asserted that the plan will keep people from buying too much of any single item.

http://time.com/3156...grocery-stores/

I'd hate to be the guy doing the finger-printing, especially given the widespread lack of toilet paper...

 

[sergio]

What a brilliant idea. Cristina will have to implement this. Hopefully they will use the inkless system they have at Ezeiza. They used to use messy ink and then give you a cheap paper towel to wipe it off - but then ink might be in short supply nowadays.

 

[Joe]

They used to use messy ink and then give you a cheap paper towel to wipe it off - but then ink might be in short supply nowadays.

Worthless napkins!

 

[Gringoboy]

Like books, ink contains lead.....

 

[mimyr]

What a brilliant idea. Cristina will have to implement this. Hopefully they will use the inkless system they have at Ezeiza. They used to use messy ink and then give you a cheap paper towel to wipe it off - but then ink might be in short supply nowadays.

Yeah that's all we need. Combined with the ordeal people go through every time they make a credit card purchase, going to carrefour would be as pleasant as taking a trip to migraciones.

 

[lucha54]

I wonder who gets to administer the up-to-the-hour database

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I wonder who gets to administer the up-to-the-hour database

Maduro will sub-contract to La Cámpora.

 

[Hybrid Ambassador]

Ebola virus. can it be contracted by touch?

 

[ARbound]

Where is our resident Camporaistas cheering for the natural arrival in Argentina?

 

[Joe]

One way this system could be used in Argentine would be to require non-residents to pay in dollars. The only negative is that they would have to take all the fruit sellers off the street since they wouldn't have money to buy the necessary IT infrastructure.