How is this any more "tracky" / "intrusive" than paying with credit currently or shopping on-line (which I understand, some find too intrusive).
Maybe I missed something in the video.
For me it's not so much the tracking of where I use my card, it's the physical tracking of my body. It feels pretty intrusive. The sensors literally track your movement and follow you around as you pick up beer and enter/exit the area.
Tin foil hat time, but I get the sense it's a bad precedent to normalize this kind of physical tracking. It starts here in stores and who knows how far we'll let it extend to?
Again, I could see this post being laughed at in the future. I might even laugh at myself. Maybe we'll come to love it. But for right now it felt really weird to be physically tracked like that. It's a new and foreign technology we haven't seen before, it's human nature to be weary of it.
At Climate Pledge in Seattle, they had grab and go items including hot food with self checkouts. I got what I needed on two separate occasions with virtually no waiting.
It was great.
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We'll get so used to it that we'll inadvertently shoplift at normal stores.
this reminds me of a time a number of years ago when my wife was in the mall with our daughter when she was still a baby.
my wife had been browsing in a store and then left. a few minutes later she decided to check on our daughter in the stroller and only then did she notice our innocent little baby had swiped a couple things while my wife wasn't paying attention.
my wife returned to the store rather embarrassed!
at least the cashier thought it was pretty funny
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Hey gang, checking in here from Seattle. We have a store called Amazon Go here that has this and at first I thought it was kinda gimmicky. but now I found myself popping in all the time just to grab a giant diet soda for 99 cents without having to talk to anyone or wait for anyone lol. All you do is scan your phone with a QR code from the Amazon app.
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The guy in the corporate boardroom presentation: "Hey! How can we, as a soulless corporate entity that cares only about $$$$, get even *more* info on our victims...uh, I mean customers, and use it to make more cash! And sell it as a 'convenience for shoppers! Heheheh"
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