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How will it handle this:

Pick up item x, walk a few aisles then decide you don't want item x anymore. Dump item x on a random shelf and continue your business.
 
EVH said:
How will it handle this:

Pick up item x, walk a few aisles then decide you don't want item x anymore. Dump item x on a random shelf and continue your business.
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Eew, peasant behaviour that! Those types won't be shopping there :p
 
Tefal said:
Tesco etc offer thst now dont they?

Get the hand held scanner go round the shop scan everything come to the self scan tills it reads the scanner you pay and you go
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Yup, been in my local tesco for years and it's not even a big store.

Unsure why I don't use it tbh :confused:
 
Diddums said:
Awesome, bout bloody time.


Also on a slightly related note, my wife works for one of the most (if not the most) famous department stores in the world and has told me that their CCTV system is so advanced it picks up people with odd body language and highlights them to security. So far it's had a 90% success rate, and one of the failures was when a lady was having an epileptic fit in the store!
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I first worked on this software back in 2006, first implemented to avoid suicides on London tubes, it evolved into something much more accurate by 2011,

at which point it was starting to be rolled out all over central London, with very accurate facial recognition software, that could track an individual over many cameras,

last I hear it was being rolled out in Glasgow, this was from a Cop friend of mine, he was getting training on it,

magic of this system was that it could be retro fitted to any half decent CCTV system.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Yup, been in my local tesco for years and it's not even a big store.

Unsure why I don't use it tbh :confused:
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Most Waitrose have it too. Waitrose also have an app you can use, scan items with your phone camera, but tbh this is not as simple as using the handset, which is definitely the best way to shop at the moment.
 
EVH said:
How will it handle this:

Pick up item x, walk a few aisles then decide you don't want item x anymore. Dump item x on a random shelf and continue your business.
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Hope it still charges the individual for being a lazy so and so who can't be bothered to return the item to the proper place :D
 
Greebo said:
Cities. In the country we might have to wait 3 or 4 days for next day delivery :(

Still keeps my prime subscription free
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I'm likely to be even more in the sticks than you are (North Northumberland - nearest depot over 30 miles away) and my Prime deliveries are always next day (they missed one on the Saturday following black Friday which was delivered on the Sunday instead, but that's understandable).
 
gord said:
Where does it say that? I must have missed it.
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it says that if you put an item down it knows, its in the video.
it has a deep learning system, so it doesn't just go an item on this shelf is worth x amount, it can recognise different objects.
 
I suspect it'll be a decade or so before this technology is mainstream, but frankly, it's inevitable. Why would a supermarket employee cashiers when people can self service? Robotic shelf-stackers will be the next thing.
 
So many things are going this way, such as taxi's driven by actual people.

I guess the counter argument/argument in favour is we get closer and closer to everything being free as it costs so little to produce/provide?
 
EVH said:
How will it handle this:

Pick up item x, walk a few aisles then decide you don't want item x anymore. Dump item x on a random shelf and continue your business.
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Hopefully dragged off into a windowless room by a few burly security guards before being dumped in the alley out the back several hours (and bruises) later...
 
I also think this could be quite a change in technology.

It's already weird when you get an uber and you just jump out without physically paying the driver.

I suspect this would actually be quite hard to steal, as it looks like there are multiple points of tracking. A sensor on the product when you put it in your bag - although being a proximity sensor, i do wonder how well it will work when you bump bags with another shopper.

Also it looked like on the video that you scan your phone on the way out, so one assumes you'd pass some form of scanner that picks up on all the items you've got on your person, and hey presto you're sent the bill.
 
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