Posted on 06/23/2019 5:33:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When I was still trying to use self checkout I put cash in to pay...it took the cash but I didn’t notice it was not deducting the cash as it took it. When I realized I got an employee to come help and told her what happened. She acted like I was a scammer deluxe. I told her I knew they had to have it on video and she needed to get the manager ASAP. I was about to truly unleash on her because of her attitude and because she didn’t suggest someone needed to look at video before I brought it up. It seemed it was fine with her if I got scammed.
I did get that sorted out but I was glad they had tapes to look at. Another day I gave the cashier a $50 and she swore I gave her a $20. Video kept me from getting scammed again.
You are right. Those self checkouts have a lot of errors. I buy a lot of clearance items and they wring up wrong about a third of the time. I then have to get the girl to go through a long process to correct it.
At the regular checkout I just tell the girl that it rang up wrong, she looks at the sticker, removes the item then reenters it.
They need to add them at the return desk.
“Pace Warehouse.”
I remember those in the late’80’s.
The first Walmart to close without being replace was in Tuskeegee, Alabama.
Anyone want to guess why?
They were the testbed stores for the modern warehouse superstore. They were truly experimental.
They have been using bio-metrics at the border for legal crossers and in processing illegals apprehended for a while now. By this point they have to have gathered a lot of data.
I think some of these recently arrived illegals that have deportation orders on them already are going to be in for a rude awakening when the technology is all meshed if it isn’t already. I think it will be fantastic to catch overstays too.
When it all comes together it will make a real impact, before this invasion likely skewed normal numbers about 1/3 of all illegals apprehended had already been previously deported. Of course to make a real difference we need the wall because catching them is only part of it, we have to make sure they can’t easily come right back.
You are right, it is coming fast. For many reasons I am not for it but it is happening and some of the ways it will be used will be great. I worry about the other ways it can be used of course.
My local Wal-Mart is an area that is basically crime free had 500K in shrinkage one year.
I was a struggling young’n then and didn’t understand the value of buying a gallon of olive oil or 100 rolls of toilet paper.
But I did have a fine understanding of the cost benefit of a case of beer vs. six packs.
You and most everyone else back then! The folks with large families got the concept rather fast. :)
I was in our local Walmart yesterday to pickup some items not on their free pickup orders.
Often, I use their new fast scan lines to get through quickly.
A little girl behind got all excited about being on TV with me. She came up and held my hand and pointed at us on a large screen tv hanging from the ceiling.
A few weeks ago at Home Depot, I was in their fairly expensive hand tool section. I kept hearing what sounded like a camera clicking. Next I saw my self on a small video screen with a notice that I was being recorded.
“The U.S. retail economy lost an estimated $46.8 billion in 2017 due to shrinkage, about 1.33 percent of sales”
I hate it when liberals try to do math.
On your last bit. I always make it a habit to say to the cashier what I am giving him/her.
Especially if it’s more than double the sale amount.
For instance, if I spent $7.00 and give him/her a $20 bill I always say, “Out of twenty,” so they look and see it’s NOT a ten.
“...all clerks will be wired up to the system, like some at Starbucks, or Old Navy, etc.”
I saw that at an Office Depot in Los Angeles - everyone working there looked like a Secret Service agent, every single one. The thought of people talking to me and also hearing who knows what about me, or whatever, was enough to freak me out. Left the store. I saw one other chain saw, but the front line workers on the floor weren’t wired, so I could deal with it.
Because America’s indigenous urban peoples wanted to live in a “food desert” so they robbed the place blind?
What is “Opens a new window?”
I suspect what’s going to QUIETLY happen is that they’ll use RFID to compare what’s on the receipt to what people are taking out the door. It won’t be hard because even thieves will likely be able to be automatically linked to a receipt that was issued in the past few minutes (or longer if they have places to eat, for example)...since most items going out with a thief, typically at least, will have been purchased legally. It’s the few extra items not on the receipt that will set off the bells.
I just tried it again below, and evidently there is code embedded in the text that shows up.
Here is the highlighted text that I copied:
Here is what gets pasted:
..theft, scanning errors, waste and fraud, a Walmart spokeswoman told Business Insider Opens a New Window...
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