Posted on 09/16/2018 7:21:21 PM PDT by Theoria
A start-up uses visual tracking and behavioral data to operate a new San Francisco market, which lets shoppers walk out unimpeded. And sometimes mischarged.
One recent afternoon, the city’s newest grocery market was trying to figure out whether I would buy, steal or leave behind a bag of white Cheddar popcorn — and so was I.
On its side: 27 cameras along the ceiling and a wealth of behavioral data.
On my side: crippling indecision.
Last week, San Francisco got its first completely automated cashierless store, Standard Market. Shoppers who have downloaded the store’s app can go into the 1,900-square-foot space, grab items and simply leave. There is no check-in gate, and there is no checkout swipe. Ceiling cameras identify the shopper and the items, and determine when said items leave with said shopper. Or, at least, that’s the idea.
The start-up behind this operation is Standard Cognition, which has raised $11.2 million in venture capital and formed partnerships with four retail chains around the world. This first market is a prototype to showcase the technology and work on the bugs. The ambitious goal is to add the tech in 100 stores a day (each day!) by 2020.
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If you’re black or hispanic, the clerk coming to discuss suspicious behavior and will be called racist. Even if the clerk is black, the company will be sued for racism.
As someone else said, this technology does nothing to stop mob looting, especially if they intentionally do NOT have the app.
I brought up a solution to a mixed group and made a lot of people mad.
I said that there are jobs that can’t be outsourced or automated. We hire legal and illegal immigrants to do them. If you want to improve employment rates for native born Americans, close the border and deport the illegal immigrants until labor supply matches demand. If the unemployment rate remains too high, start offering incentives to legal immigrants to go home.
That we DO have a way to adapt if we are willing to prioritize taking care of our own poor first.
Socialism of some sort may be inevitable.
“Can you can have a really low IQ and be a truck driver? They usually have to drive, deliver something and then keep the paperwork on it as well.”
Self driving trucks will become the norm.
When RFID gets cheap enough to tag every individual item, this will be the only way it’s done. Cashiers will be as obsolete as elevator operators.
Then they ought to be able to install in polling places to check for fraud
I did not go to the link to finish the story. The author, actually considering stealing, was disturbing.
Soy-tenly!
Lets see....battering ram small truck 10 people...run in store put everything on dollies....roll goods onto truck bed...drive truck into 18 wheeler trailer...and you are gone..or something like that....or how about just steal fruit growing on tree....
Wait until a muslim woman walks in, in a burqa.
Sooo, if you don’t download the app and they, therefore, have no idea who you are and how to charge you... how do they prosecute you? Just send the camera pictures to the cops? I can see how much Chicago’s gangs of “youths” would love this.
Good, cold facts. Glad I’m old and retired :)
Just wait until your health insurance premiums start adjusting on a monthly or weekly basis based on what’s forwarded to them in an information sharing agreement with the smart grocer.
Commercial driver logs went digital around 2013 or 15, theoretically it isn’t possible to cheat them or keep dual books and lowers the mental bar some on the record keeping level.
It’s SF, that would be some of the first stuff to go.
I think the author was joking that he ‘could have’ been considering theft, and the store would already have accommodations for that kind of shopper. He should have said it differently. For a story owner, shoplifting is not at all funny. Insurance doesn’t always cover every property loss.
A commercial air pilot must work with a mental projection of an aircraft’s flight two to five minutes ahead of real time. Accomplished truck drivers do a similar task within a shorter time-frame to navigate upon congested roadways. Both demonstrate abstract thinking, perhaps to a different degree, which is the basis of measuring I.Q.
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