If elected Mayor this November, stores all over New York City won't need to lock up toothpastes, batteries, shaving razors and inks for printers anymore by next year.
SmithieForMayor NYC 2025
NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 6, 2025 / Retail theft in NYC is an epidemic that is not only costing small businesses a huge amount of income and profit, it is also costing the city a big loss in revenue, and indirectly affecting communities where quality services are needed the most.
Well known state and city sanctioned deterrences like stronger penalties for repeated offenders or for those who carry out attacks on store security and attendants haven't worked. Law enforcement tactics and constantly updated store security strategies like self checkout and data sharing haven't been as effective as expected either.
If elected Mayor, city of New York, I don't want to be seen trodding along the same old path. I don't want to keep up the bad habit of granting commercial security tax and theft credit to affected business, small, medium or large. No.
I want to eradicate retail theft and I want to deploy technology in the most benefiting way for the general public to achieve this goal. My plan is to deploy a brand of generative AI - a Palm-to-Screen ID and payment system, that I am in the process of developing for my company, Smithie's ChowBanQ.
Call it a grab and pay or a point and pay system, it works by activating barcodes to instantly recognize your fingerprints. No card and no phone pay system needed. Just pay with your palm and checkout. But if you decide to grab and run, nobody will block your exit, because the products you stole have generative AI barcodes on them.
These barcodes will read your fingerprints and immediately draw payments from your food stamp, SSA check, SSID check, benefit check, your pay check or your bank account.
Fingerprints are unique to every individual. It cannot be stolen, copied, forged or disfigured. And these are the things that makes Palm-Pay better and more secure than facial recognition or eye screening or body scanning.
My bet is, if elected Mayor this November, stores all over New York City won't need to lock up toothpastes, batteries, shaving razors and inks for printers anymore by next year.
Palm-Pay deployment could also boost economic growth for the city and enhance how businesses operate in low income areas of the city - by simply doing away with cash transactions. No cash, no theft.
It could also enable the development of new working skills for average New Yorkers who will now be better equipped to run a business on a generative AI platform that is part of a blockchain. Outside retail stores, generative AI systems could also reshape our service based transactional system. Banks would be more effective at detecting and curbing fraudulent practices easily.
If your answer is yes to everything said so far, then you obviously care about who you'd want as your next Mayor for the city of New York. You want to do more business in a safe, secure and sustainable city.
Support my campaign by voting to rebuild your city at the ballot box this November, and I will protect your right by standing up for what you care about the most.
I am Abbey Laurel-Smith, an Independent candidate running for Mayor of the City of New York. As your candidate, I favor the general well being of all New Yorkers. And as much as I promise to work to improve the living experience for retirees, students, city workers and low income families, I also promise to work hard on bringing back those high earning out-migrators who left the city for neighboring states during the pandemic.
I put New Yorkers first. Join me, vote better live this general election and let's rebuild your city.
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SOURCE: Abbey S Laurel-Smith
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