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Stealing From a Cashierless Store (Without You, or the Cameras, Knowing It)
The New York Times ^ | 13 September 2018 | Nellie Bowles

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: automation; camera; cashier; cashless; crime; economy; shoplifting; waroncash
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This part jumped out: 'The ambitious goal is to add the tech in 100 stores a day (each day!) by 2020.'

The onslaught of tech into the economy of lower skilled employees is something to behold.

1 posted on 09/16/2018 7:21:21 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

They have protected against everything except gangs of savage brigands, so that is probably what they will get.


2 posted on 09/16/2018 7:23:56 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Theoria

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.


3 posted on 09/16/2018 7:29:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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So................

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?

4 posted on 09/16/2018 7:31:45 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I routinely shop at a store with a bagger who clearly has limited intellectual capacity. But he does a decent job of putting groceries in bags. If he was replaced by some stupid tech device he would have no job, no prospects of finding one. He would be on relief, and for the rest of his life live in grinding poverty.

That’s the progressives’ view of hope and change.

5 posted on 09/16/2018 7:35:06 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Deaf Smith
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6 posted on 09/16/2018 7:35:39 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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"at least 40% of the population cannot contribute:

You are obsolete.

*Twilight Zone ref

7 posted on 09/16/2018 7:39:56 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Theoria

And turnstile jumpers?


8 posted on 09/16/2018 7:46:06 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Theoria

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.


9 posted on 09/16/2018 7:46:15 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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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.


10 posted on 09/16/2018 7:48:14 PM PDT by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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To: Deaf Smith

Costs associated with theft is past on to honest customers. Just like every other store.


11 posted on 09/16/2018 7:49:47 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


12 posted on 09/16/2018 7:55:30 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: wetgundog

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’.


13 posted on 09/16/2018 7:55:48 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: Theoria

Big Brother.


14 posted on 09/16/2018 7:57:16 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Theoria

I could see such a store being cleaned out in one day, ‘cept for the soy products


15 posted on 09/16/2018 7:57:33 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Deaf Smith

Soy products are the first to go in Seattle!


16 posted on 09/16/2018 8:00:29 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria
California law's well ahead of this technology. A human cashier must tender out all sales involving alcohol (after all, ABC can't fine computers for sales of booze to underage customers...)

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.)

17 posted on 09/16/2018 8:00:35 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Freee-dame

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.


18 posted on 09/16/2018 8:01:09 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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To: Theoria

Soy is for feeding your deer and hogs.


19 posted on 09/16/2018 8:06:35 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Theoria

“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


20 posted on 09/16/2018 8:08:02 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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