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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They have protected against everything except gangs of savage brigands, so that is probably what they will get.
As Jordan Peterson often points out, a significant portion of our population (at least 10%) have IQs so low that they really cannot perform any useful work.
Now, there are people a step or two above that. People with low skills, but some ability. They can do various menial tasks — cashier, burger flipper, truck driver, etc.
But machines are taking those jobs away.
NOTE: Machines are also impacting high-skill jobs like lawyers and financial services.
Society is going to have, I think, at least 40% of the population who cannot contribute. The 40% number is probably right around the corner, and the number will only go up over time.
I have no idea what we’re going to do with those people. All they can make is trouble.
If the actor had not downloaded the store's app, they can just walk out?
Or, the automated doors will not open unless the your phone chirps that you have loaded the app?
That’s the progressives’ view of hope and change.
You are obsolete.
*Twilight Zone ref
And turnstile jumpers?
That kind of environment would give me the creeps.
I’d much rather be surrounded by real people than by all manner of cameras, both obvious and concealed.
A Cashierless Store done this way seems too much like a clinic where someone or something is watching every little movement you make, and recording some movements that you don’t make. No thank you. Besides, I consider seeing the people as a plus to the going out experience, not a minus.
Try this in Shitcago..
Once the system decides it has detected potential theft behavior, a store attendant will get a text and walk over for “a polite conversation,” ...
and gets his funky white ass shot.
Costs associated with theft is past on to honest customers. Just like every other store.
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.
I saw that too. Any teenage boy who’s shopping alone can spot a Mall Cop’s suspicious look. Sometimes, it’s a store clerk who is way too helpful, and won’t leave you alone just to look around. They are usually doing this because they think your casing the joint for shoplifting. Nothing to do with ‘polite conversation’.
Big Brother.
I could see such a store being cleaned out in one day, ‘cept for the soy products
Soy products are the first to go in Seattle!
Hence, every automated store would have to be void of booze. Much cheaper stores to start up, since you don't have to play the liquor license lottery, but there's also a heck of a lot to not gain in sales by being a dry store.
In San Francisco, the thing is, it might just succeed. 1900 square foot stores can fit in underserved neighborhoods and likely would be able to charge a fine premium on products that the local liquor store doesn't carry.
But assuming other states follow California's example, they're going to need staff on the floor for customers (as well as the restocking staff, be it contractor or outside hire or in-store hire.)
I should clarify: Truck drivers need some smarts to do their jobs. But that is a field which is seeing a big push for automation. Taxis, trucks, mail, FedEx, UPS, etc — those jobs are going away because the plan is to have driverless vehicles.
Soy is for feeding your deer and hogs.
“costs associated with theft is past on to honest customers. Just like every other store.”
Hence Chicago food deserts- not enough of one to support the other
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