this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
378 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

59578 readers
2784 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago (34 children)

What is preventing someone from just walking into a random store with no Amazon account and walking out with stuff?

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 7 months ago (31 children)

What is preventing someone from doing that at Walmart?…

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago (15 children)

I don't know about Walmart but I heard Target will facial recognize you and deliberately wait across multiple trips until you have stolen enough to make it grand theft before taking action.

[–] Neondragon25@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I did Target security for a few months. Yes they build cases against people until it's criminal action. It's also not subject to one store. Rather I could just type in descriptions of people (apparent age, height, skin tone, etc) and it would search those descriptions. I could then match the person and add it to the running total. When I left I heard that some markets were rolling out an AI to track people. I can answer any questions if there's anyone who want to know more.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Do you know how long do they keep video for, or is it just eternity?

load more comments (13 replies)
load more comments (28 replies)
load more comments (30 replies)