Posted on 02/06/2024 9:24:20 AM PST by george76
Safeway installs new security gates, requiring customers to scan receipts before exiting store..
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Washington, D.C. supermarkets have started installing high-tech security gates in an effort to prevent rising retail theft and crime in the nation's capital.
Over the past week, Safeway grocery stores in Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan have installed new security gates that open once a customer scans their receipt.
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The security gates come as retail thefts continue to climb.
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The Safeway in Columbia Heights recently experienced an overnight theft in which thieves broke into the grocery store’s ATM to steal the cash and ordered the employees to get on the ground.
The three suspects in the crime are not in custody and police continue to search for them
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A CVS in Columbia Heights near the Safeway, is reportedly closing at the end of the month
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The closing comes months after videos surfaced in Oct. 2023 of row after row of empty shelves at the CVS store after a group of shoplifting teens ransacked the store.
The rampant theft has gotten so bad at the CVS location that customers have begun shopping at other locations for necessities.
The nation’s capital is grappling with an escalating crime surge, having surpassed a 20-year record-high in homicides with 274 homicides recorded by the end of the year, according to Metropolitan Police Department data. Robberies also skyrocketed last year, up 67% from 2022, while theft was up 23%.
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“I sometimes go into a store and walk out without buying (or stealing) anything. I suppose I could just wait for someone else to scan their receipt to exit.”
The photo show an attendant. I guess they could open it if you are not carrying anything. Don’t know if body search required ...
Perfect rationalization for implementing the Mark of the Beast. Get a chip on your hand or forehead in order to buy or sell.
People will be so sick of the rampant theft and paying for the crooks free stuff with their hard earned money in the cost of rising food prices, that they will GLADLY comply.
Me? Looking at my garden seeds already and seeing what I can pressure can of produce I already grew. Even root crops only store for so long. But I can pressure can some veggies well and meat while it’s still available.
Sounds like a gigantic waste of Money and Effort, CLOSE THE DAMNED STORES, let them all Starve.
Printed RFID - they said ten years ago if the cost could get to 5 cents at the item level it would pay for itself - not even considering theft.
Calif. gov Gavin Newsom will stop the crime...
https://nypost.com/2024/01/31/news/gavin-newsom-recalls-how-he-was-blamed-by-target-clerk-for-cali-retail-theft/
BTW Foxnews Maria Bartiromo gushed in an interview with Donald Trump that Newsom is right out of central casting.
Stupid woman! He is known as gov Hairgel. She is easily swayed.
Automats for groceries.
Security gates are racist in 3,2,1…
(Perfect rationalization for implementing the Mark of the Beast. Get a chip on your hand or forehead in order to buy or sell.
People will be so sick of the rampant theft and paying for the crooks free stuff with their hard earned money in the cost of rising food prices, that they will GLADLY comply.)
Yes.
That’s why I expect the Amazon One systems to continue to only expand in use / popularity. Perhaps exponentially.
Amazon One Commercial
https://youtu.be/xH_SVNVIfzk?si=Zpqd9Q6UdIfqu8Pt
Never any effort at the root of the problem, though.
Just make life harder for everyone else in society.
The first time I hitch-hiked to Washington DC was the first time I had ever seen store owners buzz you in, and burglar bars, Houston didn’t have those at the time.
That is technically very feasible with RFID on each item associated to a printed receipt with a barcode that can be scanned at the door. The door RFID scanner can build a "manifest" of items observed and compare to the list of items scanned for the receipt. No receipt without payment. Many high value items have the RFID sealed inside the package.
Went thru some of these receipt-scan gates at a grocery store in Norway.
Didn’t Amazon try this in some of their grocery stores? Everything is radio tagged. Just put items in your bags/cart and walk out. Automatically charges your card. No scanning, no clerk. I am not sure of the details they employed but technically it could work. Maybe you have to swipe your card but all the “work” of checking out is done by radio frequency. If I recall Amazon wanted fingerprints but that’s unnecessary. RFID could do almost all the checkout and you just pay. No waiting.
I was at Home Depot the other day, happened to be in the same center and needed some radiator coolant. I was headed to the self checkout and a woman checker clerk flagged me down. I told her I was glad she did that, job security. If corporate sees a checker only doing a small number of receipts they are likely to eliminate her job or scale back her hours. But it’s a losing battle. It is heading towards automation.
I was in the grocery store, a young kid was clearly new on the job. I teased him about having to scan the fruit and vegetables. I told him back in the day checkers needed to know all the fruits and veggies, or had a big book to look it up - and had to wring up the price by hand. An “old timer” heard me and said “we’ve still got that book around here somewhere”.
making urban areas an African wasteland.
One of my co-workers invented a laser barcode scanner that worked beautifully with printed barcodes...even moving around in 3D space. A great concept and implementation, but it lost out to RFID that could be scanned even when optically obscured.
(RFID on each item)
That is the basis for the IBM system that they were promoting in 2007 - I remember being flabbergasted when I saw the commercial on TV
https://youtu.be/wzFhBGKU6HA?feature=shared
Amazon One makes a hash code of your palm print which is then authenticated against the database and your credit 💳 card or debit 💳 card is charged.
Although one can bypass for cash still, you can log in via palm print or cellphone 📱📱 to enter some of their stores ( Whole Foods pilot stores and others).
Yep
They obviously did not defund the police enough. More defunding is needed to attain true justice.
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