Quote: AZDuffmanI can;t remember being asked to show my receipt. I do give off a glare that says "leave me alone" to the people asking. I never have more than a few items. I cannot remember the last tine I did not use self-checkout at WMT as their cashiers tend to be very slow.
Aldi is now all but one self-checkout by me. The local chain has more and more all the time. It is here to stay and that is that.
I have been at WMT and there is a monitor showing you checking yourself out. It is there to say "we are watching." WMT surveillance rivals that of many casinos, and they can tune in to any store from corporate. If you are going to steal, do it elsewhere.
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Exactly. It's psychological warfare.
And ASDA (UK's Walmart) retain in-store video footage for 16 days and car park ANPR records for 120 days. They say they do not actually do face recognition beyond displaying a box around faces. They also say they don't use face images and captured data for marketing, but there's nothing to stop them.
One interesting development is using the cameras and AI to automatically verify age when buying alcohol,
As an aside,...
UK ALDI and UK LIDL have really embraced technology in the last year. The apparently white paper price labels on the shelves are now digital wireless 'paperwhite' displays instantly and remotely updateable. You would hardly notice unless one went faulty and started flickering. The speed of checkout staff at both of those places are legendary. Local ALDI and LIDL don't bother disabling the security tabs at checkout and the alarms constantly go off. They just wave you through. They have security tags on most meat now, which is expensive here.
Our Aldi's are quickly rolling out self checkout, though Lidl has yet to change.
It used to be that ALDI and Lidl were distinctly soulless, third rate discounters avoided by many shoppers, but now they are right at the top of their game and building new stores like crazy.
Quote: EvenBobSometimes I have to curse Walmart. Some of their delivery drivers are really lazy pieces of crap. I ordered a bunch of cat food 2 days ago and it's single digit temperature outside but my driveway has been professionally plowed and the jerk still left all my stuff down by my mailbox at the very bottom of the driveway literally 12in from the pavement. They could have easily driven up the driveway put them on my deck and driven back down. So I had to get bundled up get out the toboggan and go all the way down there and pull the stuff up the hill. Now that same day I had a 35 lb bag of cat food coming from FedEx and he carried it all the way up the hill and set it on the deck. That's because they're professionals and Walmart drivers are usually fat ass Gen X women who weigh just under 200 lb.
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Will wonders never cease, the mouth breathing morbidly obese functionally illiterate career Walmart driver actually put my order on the deck this time. If I wanted to go to the bottom of my driveway to pick up my orders I would just go to the store, duh.