re: Walmart facial recognition camera software going further than you assume?

I worked Asset protection for walmart corporate for several years, until recently, and this varies wildly by location. Stores in nicer areas will still have cameras of course, but there will be lots of dead spots in the store where the cameras cant see you. The cameras they have can read the serial number on a dollar from 50 yards away though.

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My local grocery store self-checkout always has issues scanning yellow squash for some reason. Like it comes back with an error, and their workers can't bypass it. A worker one time told me to just put it as green zucchini and weigh it that way as it's the same price. So I do that maybe 4-5 times over the course of several months until one time a worker was watching me type in green zucchini and had an absolute conniption. I say "Hey I was told to do this by one of your coworkers because the yellow squash button doesn't work." She says, "Well whoever told you that was wrong and you should not do that." I say, "Well what the hell do you want me to do?" She tries to run it as yellow squash. Same error comes back. She goes and gets the manager to see what the issue is. The manager eventually says, "Hey just run it as green zucchini, it's the same price." I don't go through self-checkout anymore if I'm buying yellow squash.

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Sounds like white people who live in black people neighborhood problems.

I guess I can’t really blame them, people are stealing them blind and messing it up for all of us. Years ago I went to buy some neoprene chest waders to go duck hunting in, they were 100 bucks. When I got home I found that some dickhead had swapped out a pair of 30 dollar hip waders and I wound up with them.

I immediately took them back and they made it right but I learned a lesson to open the box and inspect it before I buy it.

Think this is bad, look up some of the horror stories out of the Denver area regarding the Flock system

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And people who stop to get their receipt checked are not the ones stealing so its the most pointless job.

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Agree with your point, but the New Roads Walmart has two wheel chair bound employees checking receipts. Seems like a good employment opportunity for a couple of guys who need a job and are willing to work.

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ems like a good employment opportunity for a couple of guys who need a job and are willing to work.

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I know. Its old people at the one I go to and it gives them something to do and allows them to interact with people. And the people who stop are probably does it as a nice gesture, but I was just giving the a-hole way to look at it..

Smeg

You got some gnarly toes, bruh….

The simple pleasures in life are being destroyed by technology.

I was in South Africa for a month working with Walmart.
Their Asset Protection has a much more sophisticated division that most managers and associates have never heard of.
The internal losses are magnitudes greater than retail theft of shoplifters.

There are several levels of theft that Walmart deals with internal.

Associates and managers levels. Usually low sophistication, for example, local managers and district management sometimes work with associates and drivers to skim a little that goes to flea markets and auctions.
Most of this involves merchandise that is being claimed out, damaged out, liquidated, salvaged.
This merchandise is now heavily tracked as well as regular merchandise.

The next level is much more sophisticated, coming into highly organized theft through suppliers and regional management working together. The lower level workers, drivers, suppliers, ect that are involved usually have no clue that they are actually stealing for upper managers. This level includes Walmart managers with ability to manipulate inventory controls within a complicated algorithm.

The next level operates on global scales, this involves very sophisticated hacking and upper level control of supplier systems. Foreign Government is usually involved. This level surpasses by far all levels of theft combined. China, India, Russia, South Africa, Turkey. These countries all put their fingers in the Walmart pie.
It's the cost of Walmart doing business in foreign countries.

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Asking to check my receipt is tantamount to accusing me of stealing

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I feel the same way. I’ve dodged them many times on principle.

They do, however, have the legal right to check your receipt and purchases.