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Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop
Mr. Sato takes a trip to GO12, easily the strangest place in the city to buy a microwave.
And while a would-be crook is unlikely to grab a washing machine and make a break for it, GO12 has plenty of less-bulky items too, like hot water kettles and hair dryers. Yeah, he’d paid for his new microwave, but the absence of any human interaction somehow produced a twinge of nervousness as he carried it out of the store like a burglar with an aversion to cold leftovers. Still, he made it back to this office without getting stopped by the cops, and now employees and guests at SoraNews24 HQ can enjoy piping hot food and drink courtesy of our new-to-us Twinbird-brand microwave.
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