Boots high street store CCTV incident/s

Some stores have facial recognition systems and on a known shoplifter entering will trigger a message to staff in the store… and this is shared across all the stores so that if you move into a different location, the system will still flag you.

It’s possible that you’re a match for a known shoplifter … so you must look dodgy AF:cry:

That being said, the messages across the tannoy I wouldnt say are right, and i would be writing to complain.
 
I must try this in the large Boots in the retail park. Once the tanoy starts I’ll start swinging at the first do-Gooder who arrives on scene.
 
Some stores have facial recognition systems and on a known shoplifter entering will trigger a message to staff in the store… and this is shared across all the stores so that if you move into a different location, the system will still flag you.

It’s possible that you’re a match for a known shoplifter … so you must look dodgy AF:cry:

That being said, the messages across the tannoy I wouldnt say are right, and i would be writing to complain.
I was just about to ask do we think they have facial recognition and are you now marked. No doubt that information is already on President Xi's desk.
 
I must try this in the large Boots in the retail park. Once the tanoy starts I’ll start swinging at the first do-Gooder who arrives on scene.
With a keyboard, right?

The whole thing sounds nuts. But I guess it's their property to police as they wish. Obviously they've done the sums and it's worth the outlay to setup compared to what they lose in shoplifting. But I would be mightily aggrieved if that had started happening to me. Maybe once I'd laugh it off, but regularly no way!

Unless.. plot twist.. the OP was actually shoplifting :p
 
Some stores have facial recognition systems and on a known shoplifter entering will trigger a message to staff in the store… and this is shared across all the stores so that if you move into a different location, the system will still flag you.

It’s possible that you’re a match for a known shoplifter … so you must look dodgy AF:cry:

That being said, the messages across the tannoy I wouldnt say are right, and i would be writing to complain.
It sounds like the facial recognition if they've got it is of the usual poor quality type that doesn't actually work well in the real world with false positives (and worse for the store, probably a high false negative rate).
 
Going into Boots with a backpack and a cap on?

You might as well tattoo SHOPLIFTER on your forehead.

lol, its a blooming Trespass winter cap with fur lined ear flaps and Trespass backpack, if I look like anything it's a middle aged walker/hiker, I'm not donning an adidas cap and stripy tracksuit with a weed satchel and a vape in my hand! :p

She said the system gets triggered multiple times a day, so I was thinking they can't all be thieves, it must be quite off putting to customers if your hearing that message over the tannoy when your in there.
 
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Bloody hell OP
I was reading that and thought, this must be a joke.

I'm pretty sure thats against the data protection act

How they are getting away with that is ludicrous

Embarrassing that's for sure, your treated like a criminal not a customer
 
I was looking for a cheap antibacterial mouthwash reading the ingredients on a few of them, eventually I just went to the counter and asked if the Boots branded version was as good as the Corsodyl one, she was very offish with me and I had staff lingering right by me, I purchase the mouthwash, leave the store pretty annoyed but tried to shrug it off.

I’m grateful people who take buying mouthwash this seriously are flagging up on security systems. I feel safer.
 
they prob play the message all the time, not just on demand cos desperate/skint people will steal lots of things from Boots regularly like baby food etc!

they play a message on some buses in the USA along the same lines because there must be a lot of trouble on buses in the USA!
 
Abuse the system, troll the security staff, have some fun with it. You aren't actually guilty of stealing/shoplifting until you've removed goods from the shop premises without paying. So you can put as much as you want in your pockets/backpack, walk right up to the door, dump it all on the floor and walk out, and the worst they can do is ban you from visiting the store in future. But all the security staff will assume you are about to steal and lose their ****, so you can waste quite a lot of their time. Seems like fitting retribution for the way they are treating you.

Or alternatively claim emotional damage for being called out by the someone over the PA system, take them to court and kick up a massive fuss on social media. Video it happening with a hidden camera and post it to youtube, make sure everyone knows about Boots and their dodgy security practices.

The reason big companies do heinous **** like this all the time is nobody does anything about it.
 
boots must have thought the viral channel4 article would act as a deterrent itself

waitrose is still #1 for literally in your face surveillance, and, they don't boast about the control room/waterboarding - plus they have better stuff to eat, can't think of anything i'd shoplift in boots.

I'd seen that shoplifting is increasing, but seems the Waitrose customers must be the most likely to do that ?

leastways this morning went through their self checkout and they have mounted 9+" tablets above terminals showing its CCTV of yourself/surroundings. (hope they are chinese)
 
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