[Enlightened1]

Walmart is tracking their customers.

How long until other stores, restaurants and gas stations do this too?

[moovova]

Happy?
Sad?
Armed with a bomb?

[MrEdd]

How about just puting more clerks on the registers?

[bigbob]

Maybe they should just weigh ‘em.

[BenLurkin]

shoppers who appear irritated or just generally unhappy

And what are they going to do when the find me?

[mass55th]

I’ve got something for them they can scan...

[circlecity]

I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell anyone who believes Wat-Mart’s explanation of why they are doing this.

[fso301]

Walmart is developing facial recognition technology so it can identify the shoppers who appear irritated or just generally unhappy,

Yeah right. What they are really doing is spotting professional shoplifters, return fraud and other scam artists.

[Grams A]

Am in the process of moving so went to Wally World to buy bubble wrap since theirs was the least expensive in our shopping area. First time I’ve been there in at least five years. Decided to find employee to direct me to its location since I was short of time so asked first Wal-Mart employee I saw. She waved her hand indicating to follow her and immediately headed to the cosmetic area where the bubble bath was located.

Turns out she DOES NOT speak English, only Spanish - but this is Texas so why should I expect anything else. Left immediately and wrote a letter to the store manager and their PR department in Arkansas. They won’t have to worry about tracking me because I won’t be going back.

[I want the USA back]

Sure. Tell me they won’t establish a database of customers, to track their habits. No names, until the customer buys with a credit card, then names.

One more reason why I won’t go to Walmart.

[Rusty0604]

What could go wrong?

[Gamecock]

Panicked:

[subterfuge]

Come on. Nobody in a Wal-Mart is happy...

[rjsimmon]

[eaglestar]

Well I guess they’re going be watching my reaction when they overload their dinner salads with purple cabbage.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so it can identify the shoppers who appear irritated or just generally unhappy

In other words, all of them.

[KarlInOhio]

From 1984:

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called.

[ex91B10]

Just another reason not to shop at Walmart.

[Molon Labbie]

Oh this should go over well with the perpetually aggrieved class...

Whachu you mean, I look angry, oh wait, free stuff? Now I’m happy.

[blueplum]

want to keep shoppers happy? #1 complaint: put price tags on things.

[Old Yeller]

Just great. My normal relaxed face borders on looking like I’m unhappy, when I am totally contented. Am I going to have to walk around with a fake smile plastered on my face all the time?