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Sunday my wife and I were doing self-checkout at Walmart when a warning message came up on the screen and it showed a video of me from above doing something that the AI interpreted as suspect. One of the clerks came over and cleared it.
The point is, besides surveillance cameras everwhere includinng the checkout kiosks, Walmart is using AI to flag suspected theft.
We are on the cusp of robocop world.
I must reluctantly defend Walmart here. In the video it appears that a Walmart shopper did not show her receipt upon request. And that set things off.
Just show the receipt. It’s a Walmart rule, and everyone knows it. It’s also 100% a property rights issue. Walmart is private property. They have every right to make their own rules.
Some folks think that rule is intrusive, and demeaning. They well could be right. Then go shop somewhere else.
I don’t know where the Walmart allegation comes from. It’s not that way where I live. I’ve walked in on couples trying to steal dog collars and leashes in the local Supercenter. They snuck the dog in under a sweatshirt then put it down on the floor fitted it with a collar and leash from the dog aisle when they thought no one was looking (I was). Then they walked the dog out of the store. Nobody was detained for anything. No law enforcement presence anywhere. They got away with maybe sixty bucks worth of stolen goods. Welcome to South America North.
Well, you will be happy to know that shoplifters rob our local Walmart blind and get away with it. My wife saw a man dressed in a full HIJAB in the woman’s restroom stuffing packages under it. She reported him and the security people said that there was nothing that they could do even though you could see the corners of the boxes showing through.
We followed them into the parking lot and two middle eastern looking guys through their ill-gotten gain in the back of a large BMW.
There should be an item limit on self check out. Sometimes people just make mistakes, they forget to ring up something on the bottom rack of the cart or just overlook something. They get distracted. Many times I have saved the cashier from making these kinds of mistakes.
I feel sorry for the WM guy. He is just trying to do his job. The customer sounds like an a-hole. Talking about the guy losing his job. The guy doesn’t make that much. Leave the guy alone. Show your frickin’ receipt and quit recording every damn interaction so you can get your 15 minutes. Makes me mad this constant need to try to humiliate people that are peons just like “you”.
Once upon a time, you could return an item at Walmart without a receipt. It took awhile, but they finally realized that there are no bigger crooks than the general public. People were eagerly stealing stuff and returning it for cash.
This has little to do with Wal Mart and everything to do with getting a video on Tik Tok.
“At over $430 billion, the Walton family is the richest family in the world. The Hermès family—purveyors of scarves, neckties, perfumes, and handbags—is the fourth-richest family in the world at $170.6 billion. The royal families of Qatar, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia are near the top of the list, thanks to their countries’ abundant oil wealth.”
They havin’ a really jolly ol’ time
Target is choosing to just ban customers it catches shoplifting without the expense of the judicial system.
Walmart video records every square inch of its stores. So I’m not so sure about the false accusations part.
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The idiot employee is a Walmart issue but idiots are employed everywhere. You fire them.
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With today’s technology you should empty the contents of your cart on a conveyor belt thru a tunnel system that identifies the bar code (perhaps have it printed in multiple locations on the packaging) snaps a photo, then provides a bill and drops the items into a cart and emails you a receipt and allows you to enter it into a spreadsheet or other software program to track costs.
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