The lack of a person watching you check out does not mean no one is watching. They absolutely are and you are being recorded the entire time you are in the store.
I was very uncomfortable with the level of digital surveillance at Fred Meyer yesterday, and I’m a paying customer. I generally don’t show at those types of stores, so it was surprising, and disgusting.
Hey hey hey, no snitching on people who take food. Corporations won’t starve, just because a starving person took some food from them.
No snitching period. Why would you side with a massive corporation that steals from mentally disabled people and old people, decimated America as we knew it, destroying every local economy, and demanding prices so cheap from brands that they’ve made shittier products with slightly different labels to meet that demand? Fuck Walmart. If you rat someone out for stealing from Walmart, then you’re a brainwashed asshole.
That feels like an eye for an eye logic. Shoplifting has a very real impact and incentives dystopian surveillance even more.
I don’t normally mention people stealing but that’s mostly because it is plain obvious as they are terrible at being inconspicuous. They only time I mentioned that I saw someone stealing is at a dollar general where there was a single employee.
Also if you do see someone stealing do not approach them or accuse them of stealing. That can go very badly and could lead to a serious escalation.
Fun fact, dollar general has a habit of locking employees in the store and demanding they do work off the clock.
Dollar general has stolen now more from it’s own employees than anyone has ever stolen from dollar general. That’s before you get to the horrifically unethical shit they get up to that’s legal.
Fuck em.
Oh on that case why don’t you just go and burn down the store with everyone inside. I’m sure that’s what they deserve.
Seriously though I don’t see how one justifies the other. Fighting fire with fire never goes well.
Here’s another fun fact, wage theft is the biggest single source of theft in the US.
You’re up in arms against individual thievery and simping for the biggest thieves in the country.
Bullshit. It is up to you to verify you get paid the correct amount. That doesn’t justify theft. Like I said, you logic is an eye for an eye.
Tell me you didn’t read a fuckin thing without telling me you didn’t read a fuckin thing
Walmarts around me have cameras at each self check out.
Yup. I was using self checkout once and it flagged me when I was trying to pay but didn’t say why. The supervisor was on top of it and unlocked the terminal and it made him watch a 5 second video of “suspicious activity”, which was me moving my reusable bag to the other side at a low angle. Some AI they use saw that as trying to sneak an unscanned product past the scanner.
I thought it was terribly clever but he just rolled his eyes and apologized for the inconvenience. As if an underpaid Walmart employee is going to waste their time arguing with a shoplifter.
which was me moving my reusable bag to the other side at a low angle.
Seems like a system like that would be easily fooled by confidently moving an item across the scanner and into the baggage area without scanning it.
It’s tied to the scanner so it knows nothing scanned, if you can stack two items and scan only one you can trick it, but the scale will pick up to much added weight so you gotta do something light. Clothes are good.
My local store flagged me cause I had my coffee cup in the cart. It said, “you only scanned 5 items” and it thought I had 6 in the cart. I was a bit surprised cause I didn’t know it was that far of a view.
Some have the skip bagging button so you can just leave stuff in the cart and use the zapper but I think most stores are getting rid of that as an option.
My local walmart recently significantly expanded the self checkout area with the new scanners. Currently they either don’t have functioning cameras or they display a gray camera icon where it normally would show a live view.
Not that it matters here specifically, fuck Walmart. But don’t assume that just because a feed on a public screen is blank, that it isn’t being recorded or actively viewed elsewhere.
Also don’t assume that just because a public screen was showing that a video is being recorded. Those little screens in the isles that light up when you walk by don’t record, the over heads do though.
They know that loss increases with self checkout. They just did the math and figured it’s less than the cost of hiring all the extra cashiers.
Yep. That means you should get your value worth. If you accidentally don’t scan an item once in a while you shouldn’t worry about it too much.
Probably some dystopian security system
I’ve always had much better much at the non self checkout with cashiers getting distracted or forgetting to scan certain things. Especially at home depot I got a free 80 dollar shower head because my puppy was in the cart
You really should take it back and explain what happened. You really don’t want to to be on the persons of interest list.
Better yet, check your recipe before you leave to make sure everything rang up correctly.
I’m sure it depend on the area. Also Walmart has cameras with facial recognition so I personally wouldn’t want to try to rob them.
Where I’m at there is also an exit check with a person that checks your receipt
Legally speaking, walmart can ask to see your receipt, but since it’s not a membership store, or has it in their Terms and Conditions of purchasing goods there, they can’t stop you from just not showing it
I just say no thank you and keep walking. Never had a problem.
I do this as well. One day I was in a hurry on a lunch break and I was getting batteries and a sandwich, literally two items in a single bag. The person stepped in front of me and started to ask to see my receipt and I just snapped out “no thank you” but when they just stepped aside I realized there was no reason to ever let them and I havent since.
I say sure, hand them the receipt (most of the time unless if there’s something I might need to return) and keep walking.
All they asked was to see my receipt. They can look at it all they want.
That’s what the illegally armed and outfitted off duty police officer at the front of the store is for.
Very true. However, I am happy to comply
