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Walmart Just Filed for a Weird Patent. Shopping Carts May Never Be the Same
Inc ^ | 21OCT18 | Betsy Mikel

Posted on 10/21/2018 12:47:45 AM PDT by vannrox

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1 posted on 10/21/2018 12:47:45 AM PDT by vannrox
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“These innovative shopping cart handles would collect your biometric data, meaning your stress level, your body temperature, and heart rate — all while you’re strolling through the aisles of your local store, filling your cart with Walmart’s everyday low-priced items. Putting a positive spin on data collection”
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I wonder if their scan can read past gloves? If not, I could see a sudden interest in gloves coming back into fashion.


2 posted on 10/21/2018 12:52:28 AM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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I wonder if their scan can read past gloves?

Puhleeeeze.

How many people are going to go to that kind of trouble to thwart Big Brother?

4 posted on 10/21/2018 1:03:58 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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HIPAA should stop this from advancing. The data should be given to the customer first. An associate is not a first responder.


5 posted on 10/21/2018 1:05:13 AM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG ...)
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To: Windflier; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void

Gotta control that world population.

At every single place.

The 4th beast from Daniel will tolerate no dissent.


6 posted on 10/21/2018 1:05:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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They should program it to recognize a shopper’s intention to shoplift and send an associate to follow that person and interact if necessary. /s


7 posted on 10/21/2018 1:05:49 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "In the meantime, I'm president and you're not!")
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Innovative=invasion of privacy. They don’t need to know their customers’ private medical information.


8 posted on 10/21/2018 1:08:18 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Like mood rings, oh, yeah. ;-D


9 posted on 10/21/2018 1:12:09 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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10 posted on 10/21/2018 1:16:36 AM PDT by maggief
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Rfid Ferriday gloves, well only the right one, are gonna be real big soon. The Michael Jackson look is gonna be current again.

Not that I plan or want to be here when that happens.

11 posted on 10/21/2018 1:23:03 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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They already have cameras in stores that follow your eyes so they can use the data to decide how to place their most profitable items.


12 posted on 10/21/2018 1:44:45 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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I would never shop at a store like that


13 posted on 10/21/2018 1:46:44 AM PDT by SaintDismas
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If Walmart is collecting bio metric
data, and I’m not trying to be their
defender in this case, it could be
that they are trying to make your
shopping trips easier and less
stressful. What I get the most po’d
about is people stopping to gab in
the middle of the isles, and 20 people
standing in line at the only 3 open
registers of 20 or more. Or people
buying $200 bucks worth of groceries
at the tobacco isle, and they don’t
smoke. I dip (bad habit I know).
If their future research can expedite
my shopping, I’m all for it. Until they
are able to tie my reactions to my debit
card. I will then wheel in my own cart.


14 posted on 10/21/2018 1:48:22 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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My heart rate accelerated when I saw a couple melons — and I wasn’t in the produce section.


15 posted on 10/21/2018 1:49:36 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Check out lines as we know them will go away. Even self-checkout.

This commercial is from 11 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk


16 posted on 10/21/2018 1:50:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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” *%#!!!... Big Brother”

and his twin sister Nosy Rosie! Whole lot of folks beginning with Gubment types, so-called celebrities and leftists should simply stick to their knitting....before they get a eye poked out with a needle.


18 posted on 10/21/2018 1:57:03 AM PDT by Huaynero
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Damn, I was hoping for round wheels


19 posted on 10/21/2018 2:22:13 AM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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I have the right to take my pocket Degausser anywhere I like. They better have a good cart mechanic handy.


20 posted on 10/21/2018 2:25:36 AM PDT by Openurmind
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