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		</div><p>A Swedish IT specialist has opened the country&#8217;s first unmanned, 24-hour convenience store.</p>
<p>Robert Ilijason, 39, said he was inspired after a chaotic late-night scramble to buy baby food with a screaming toddler in the back seat.</p>
<p>Customers at the store in Viken, southern Sweden, use their mobile phones to unlock the door with a swipe of the finger and scan their purchases.</p>
<p>All they need to do is register for the service and download an app.</p>
<p>They get charged for their purchases in a monthly invoice.</p>
<p>The shop has basics like milk, bread, sugar, canned food, nappies and other products that you expect to find in a small convenience store.</p>
<p>It does not have tobacco or medical drugs because of the risk of theft.</p>
<p>Alcohol cannot be sold in convenience stores in Sweden.</p>
<p>&#8220;My ambition is to spread this idea to other villages and small towns,&#8221; said Mr Ilijason.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is incredible that no one has thought of his before.&#8221;</p>
<p>He hopes the savings of having no staff will help bring back small stores to the countryside.</p>
<p>In recent decades, such stores have been replaced by bigger supermarkets often many miles away.</p>
<p>Mr Ilijason receives deliveries at the shop and stacks products on the shelves.</p>
<p>Then he lets the customers do the rest.</p>
<p>He has installed six surveillance cameras to discourage shoplifting in the 480-square-foot store.</p>
<p>Also, he is alerted by a text message if the front door stays open for longer than eight seconds or if someone tries to break it open.</p>
<p>&#8220;I live nearby and can always run down here with a crowbar,&#8221; Mr Ilijason said laughing, but added that has not been necessary since the store opened in January.</p>
<p>A bigger challenge has been getting some of the elderly residents in Viken, a town of 4,200 people, to get the hang of the technology involved.</p>
<p>Tuve Nilsson, 75, said there were many more shops in the town when he moved here with his family in 1976.</p>
<p>He welcomed Mr Ilijason&#8217;s new store, saying it could be convenient for elderly people living alone.</p>
<p>&#8220;But if they can manage this (technology), I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Mr Nilsson said. &#8220;Sometimes I don&#8217;t understand it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Ilijason is considering other ways to unlock the door that would not require using an app.</p>
<p>He has ruled out face-recognition or fingerprint scanners, but is thinking of installing a credit card reader like some banks use.</p>
<p>He is also considering having one person man the store for a few hours a day to help customers who are not comfortable with modern technology.</p>
<p>Other customers loved the speed of the no-service store.<br />
Raymond Arvidsson, a friend of Mr Ilijason, did his shopping in less than a minute.</p>
<p>&#8220;No queues,&#8221; he said, smiling. &#8220;Quick in, quick out. I like.&#8221;</p>
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