Downtown San Francisco retail is dying. What's replacing it is so much worse

> Regardless, it does seem that there’s at least some interest: A uniformed employee in charge of protecting the Orb tells me that about 30 eye-scanning appointments have already been booked out of 200.

Does that sound like significant interest? I thought they were paying people to do it (to be fair, it's a pretty small amount for SF IIRC, but that sounds like it has the opposite of hype).