Posted on 10/21/2018 12:47:45 AM PDT by vannrox
See post #60
Sketchy shoplifters usually don’t push carts around. They stuff stolen items in the baggy clothing or big purses.
Diversity and illegals flooding Walmart can cause high bp in taxpaying customers..
That don’t account for moving items to a different part of the store every few months. That makes no sense unless the objective is to reduce sales.
Might have potential to identify perverts who pass by the children’s undergarments section.
If that happens there is a reason for them to do that.
Grocery stores have marketing application programs based on foot traffic, sales, shelf position and dozens of other algorithms that predict dollar sales, volume, item profitability when an item is placed anywhere in the store.
That makes no sense unless the objective is to reduce sales.
The objective is to always increase sales..
It's always about profitability...
Just rest your hands near/around the corners of the top handle, instead of wrapping them around the handle. It’s not awkward at all to push and steer a cart around like that. I do it, when the handle looks dirty.
That’s why the milk is always at the back of the store so you have to walk past a hundred items and you might pick up something else to purchase.
Moving items from one side of the store to the other does the same thing. You wander around looking for what you came in for, can’t find it in it’s old place, so in the hunt you might see something else to purchase.
That works on some people but I shop with a list. It also ticks me off when I have to go on a hunt so I’m likely to leave the half filled cart and leave.
Our local, one and only, grocery would scramble items so you’d have to double your time. Tomato juice would be on aisle one but grape juice would be on aisle 3 or snack nuts would be on aisle 2 but chips would be on aisle 4. Of course, coffee and creamer would be on different aisles. That, along with their rotten produce, lost this customer for a year. I drove 3 towns over and wasted gas but felt it was justified even on a super tight budget.
So long as the shopping cart does not scan the 666 #markofthebeast id chip which is embedded in my neck, I am fine with it.
Last winter I was sick all winter long. We have to take our own bags here so I got into the habit of throwing one of my bags over the handle so I wouldn’t have to touch it. I do it everywhere I go now. So Walmart would be out of luck with me. I don’t shop there anyway so.......lol
This is good.
We will finally find out what percent of WalMartians are alien vs human.
Sale on welder’s gloves on isle 13.
Ikea has those. They can be a bit awkward to drive.
There are less intrusive and cheaper ways to make a trip to Wally World less stressful. Any store that needs biometric data to ease shopper’s stress should just close its doors forever.
Most of these kind of patents are preemptive. Now that you no longer need to make a working model and can patent a “wouldn’t it be cool if”. It doesn’t mean WalMart wants to use these carts, they just want to get paid if somebody else does.
If they do it you won’t know you are. It’ll look like a regular cart. It’s a big data world, privacy is dead, you are nothing but data points, get over it. Railing against this is like being angry at the sun rising in the East: 100% pointless.
I was wondering about that as well.
True - I often have to check a few carts before doing the shopping.
I can always tow the cart from the front......
I’d be glad if they disinfect the handles
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