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[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago

Have you ever seen the security room at a Walmart? If you ever thought you weren't on camera in a Walmart, you were. It's like a casino.

That particular camera looks like it is in a locking case, usually for hight theft items. The bizarre thing here is why the extra security on Sugar in the Raw and what looks like maybe Stevia.

[-] DillDough@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Not a locked case, it's a normal shelf...also not a normal camera and not for security.

Do you get it now?

[-] remotedev@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Being earnest here, I don't. What's the difference between a normal camera and a security camera? If it's used for surge pricing, absolutely it's terrible. But if it's being used for shoplifting like cameras have been used in stores for forever, I'm not grasping the big deal of these ones. Is it just the potential of them using it for bad (which honestly they probably will)? There's cameras all over aisles, checkout areas already

[-] DillDough@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Notice how there's more than a lense there? Notice the angle the whole unit is going to be monitoring? It's not for security, and the biggest concern isn't even about immoral business practices like surge pricing or even more targeted advertising and coercive "advertising".

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago

This is for dynamic pricing

[-] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 54 points 4 days ago

I might put on my goin out overalls and check these things out. Ain't my fault I'm a true american with pockets full of wet clay. Takes a pressure washer to get that kind out mud out from under my fingernails.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

Let those among us who haven’t accidentally packed our pockets with wet clay cast the first clod

[-] tal@lemmy.today 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, that Walmart already is going to have had cameras all over the ceiling for a long time.

I'm a little annoyed by a local sandwich shop having their ordering kiosk


which had a camera added


recognize me and start recommending things based on my prior purchases there.

Now when I order at a kiosk, if I see something that looks like a camera, I put my hand over it.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

Dude... Are you really oblivious to the difference? These are for facial recognition, eye tracking and surveillance pricing through RFID price tags.

[-] Ghoelian@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

The only part of that not really possible with ceiling cameras is eye tracking, you don't need eye-level cameras for the other two.

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[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

Find the peanut butter aisle. Then make all the aisles peanut butter aisles.

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 21 points 3 days ago

Walmart shoppers will put up with anything

[-] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean, yeah.

Wal-Mart caters to people who will buy cheaper things no matter what, whether that's because they're desperate or disinterested in how that impacts their world.

It's like saying NASCAR fans like seeing cars go fast; that's basically the whole point.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Many are in food deserts and have no other choice.

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[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Never really got the appeal of walmart, they have only had some I wanted maybe twice over the last 20 years.

Oh well, yet another reason to never go there.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

I'm not sure how many shop there because it appeals to them

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

For many smaller towns, it's the store. And for larger towns, it's still a 1-shop stop. If you're busy and need to grab gym shorts, a hammer, groceries, and a new router you can do it all in one place on the way home from.work.

[-] sanitation@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago

For many people it's nearest grocery

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 16 points 3 days ago
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[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 13 points 3 days ago

It must take a lot of compute to have AI review all those cameras and calculate surge pricing. I wonder where they will find it?

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

I know someone directly involved with this work/these changes and Walmart absolutely shares this stuff with law enforcement basically freely

[-] QueenFern@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 days ago

Looks like a used gum disposal unit to me

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Oops, my greasy hands just smeared over the lens!

... Whoops, this one too!

[-] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Metal scouring pads are only a few aisles over. Aren't they worried about people being able to so easily reach their expensive equipment?

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

was gonna ask, what aisle is electrical tape in?

[-] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Silly me. Better take it down and toss it in the toilet.

[-] Jiral@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Thoroughly illegal in the EU. Luckily Walmart doesn't operate there.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

It wasn't luck. They tried and failed, on account of how many of their normal practices are illegal in the EU.

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[-] EggInDisguise 19 points 4 days ago

I suddenly feel the need to grab my largest tipped sharpie and a mask and walk around Walmart for the first time in years

[-] turdburglar@piefed.social 26 points 4 days ago

pro-tip: use paint pen.

sharpie comes of with alcohol.

paint comes off with scraping and scratching cheap plastic camera lenses.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

People are stealing sugar?

I'm not a scientist or anything, but that seems like really bad news

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

If I ever end up back in a Walmart and see these, I'm definitely setting something in front of them.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Pinch of thermite should do it

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[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Sharpies are just a few aisles over

[-] meathorse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Right next to the white-out

[-] SayJess 8 points 3 days ago

Funny thing is, the regional grocer in my area has cameras up all over the entrances and parking lot. In my situation, there is less surveillance at Walmart than the “other guy”.

Surge pricing, here we come!

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[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 8 points 4 days ago

This is why they're losing to Amazon.

[-] sanitation@lemmy.today 12 points 4 days ago

No it's because their website sucks

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