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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we cannot have straws or drive our suv anywhere we want or set our thermostat to whatever temp we can afford but we can throw away millions of RFID tagged packaging?
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Home Depot Fires Men Who Stopped Thieves
WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 6-6-2007
Posted on 6/6/2007, 12:53:36 PM by Cagey
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — A former Home Depot employee said the company fired him and three other workers because they helped police catch several suspected shoplifters in May.
Midwest City Police said the men helped officers catch suspected shoplifters as they tried to run from a store with lawn equipment.
An internal memo from Home Depot outlines that associates cannot accuse, detain, chase or call the police on any customer for shoplifting. However, one of the fired employees said the company is selective in enforcing that policy.
“The loss-prevention guy at our Shields (Boulevard) store turned around and told me all we need to do is tell the shoplifter to have a good day as they leave the store. I said that just doesn’t make sense,” former employee Bob Stewart said.
Stewart said what really doesn’t make sense is a termination letter Home Depot gave him and three other employees after they helped police catch the shoplifters.
“We saw them with the merchandise. We saw them run out of the store. I never kept my eyes off of them,” Stewart said. “Then when we asked them for a receipt, and that’s when they dropped the merchandise and they kept running. One guy still had a chainsaw while he was running, and that’s when the cops tackled him.”
The letter said Stewart and the others were fired because they “pursued and assisted in the apprehension of suspected shoplifters.”
To that same end are self identified originalists who think they thought up the perfect crime, but every beat cop let alone a detective has seen all become.
If the doors don’t open, I believe that would be a fire-code violation.
It’s always the few bad apples that give other apples the justification to watch everything you do...eventually your microwave will be watching you..but its for your own good.
Going to the DMV gives me the creeps and there are plenty of people there. You’ll get used to it. ;o)
“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.”
I was surprised when clerk-less stores started that they were using cameras. I thought RFID would be the way they would go.
A solid wall would help.
I find it offensive that U.S. defense contractor Raytheon was happy to build 2000 miles of terrorist and refugee proof walls for Saudi Arabia along Yemen and Iraq and bid to build the same for Jordan, but won’t dare to build something similar on our border. And that proves it CAN be done.
Soylent Green.
A food riot occurs because the distributors ran out of Soylent Green. The crowd wouldn’t disperse, then was warned that “The Scoops were coming”, and voila, that’s a Scoop.
That's one reason** I don't do self-checkout. I like interacting with the clerks/baggers and flirt with the females (sometimes they flirt back).
** 2) I'm not contributing to putting someone out of work.
** 3) I'm not doing the store's job for them.
Oooohhh, I like that plan. I could use the Discount.
Did You hear about the Nike shoe returns ?
People are taking shoes back for refunds.
When asked why ? The answer given is:
“They hurt my feet while standing for The Nation Anthem”
Just perfect!
It is simply the test bed for the coming Bureau of Pre-Crime.
100%
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