Tesco Shoppers Mock “Var’syle Cameras a Self-Checkout
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20q5q92y2yo
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Tesco Shoppers Mock “Var’syle Cameras a Self-Checkout
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20q5q92y2yo
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
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*The supermarket is aiming to reduce shoplifting by installing overhead cameras to identify when shoppers fail to scan an item properly, and then showing a live-action replay of the item not scanning.*
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I hate these things, can’t go anywhere without a camera in your face these days. It’s even worse if they’re hooked up to facial recognition, which could be a real possibility in the future.
Can’t believe customer service is now so in the bin you’re constantly treated like a thief.
I only use the manned checkouts these days, because I’m not dealing with all the nonsense they’ve added to self checkouts. Constantly asking for staff to come over and approve stuff, as if you’re always trying to get one over on them.
Meanwhile Mr McShoplifter just takes his trolley and leaves without anyone stopping him.Â
The enshittification of life and general loss of social contract in the UK continues. Treat paying customers like thieves and do nothing about actual thieves.
Not content with telling me that my item is not in the bagging area when it clearly is, this machine is now going to check whether I was offside or not?
“While some shoppers mocked the tech, others complained it was a step too far, with some saying they would not use self-checkout again.”
I bet they still do
Bag of salad in Sainsbury’s a couple of days ago, with barcode that was too close to the weld/join of the bag itself – me swiping like a madman – and the overhead VAR showing me the video footage of my wee bald patch as I’m desperately trying to do the right thing. The till goes on to stall the entire checkout with a flashing “assistance” light. I’m duly helped [confirm over 25] is pressed. Hmmm, must look into hair treatments
Look how much money they’ll spend to avoid paying wages to real staff
If you don’t trust me to scan it, put a paid employee on to scan it for me.
“Yes, Geoff, we can clearly see that milk is offside. No scan!”
Do they have evidence that a large part of shoplifting is people trying to sneak an item past the weight sensor in the till? Or is it more the local crack heads loading up a trolley and walking out the door without any consequences whatsoever?
It was nice living in a high-trust society while it lasted. You’ll be getting escorted around your corner shop by private security soon
If they *really* cared, they’d remove all self service scanners and have more people working on more tills.
But that costs much more than the amount they’re actually losing, so they won’t do it.
Went on Holiday, came back. The manned till at my local Tesco express is now behind armoured glass, with a little cutout for the scanner.
Wtf is going on.
The longer I work in corporate, the more I expect the actual truth is some third party consultancy firms has sold a higher up on an idea that will yield zero benefit but gets implemented anyway so nobody has to admit they were wrong.
I like self-checkout, mostly. I use it properly and im sure some number crunchers have figured out that the losses to shoplifting are worth the cost. But these cameras won’t stop people shoplifting. Shoplifting is more brazenly and obvious than ever. Its not guilt that’s gonna stop anyone, its the combination of two things. Likeliness of being caught, and severity of punishment once caught. Both of these are milk weak at the moment, so people will continue to steal.Â
Maybe we just shouldn’t shop at Tesco?
Much of the worst practices of supermarkets in the UK seems to have started for them.
For example, they were the first to introduce club card “discounts” where the prices of certain items are increased if you haven’t signed up to thier loyalty scheme, which reduces them back to normal price – a practice which is now sadly near universal.
Personally, I’ll never shop at them for that reason, though the chicken has very much left the coop on that boycott.
“They’re nicking a trolley full of shopping Chris”
“Are they Geoff? I thought they paid. Let me check the VAR”
It’s interesting that this sub absolutely despises shoplifters, and yet opposes any measures implemented by supermarkets to try and stop shoplifting.
Yeah, it sucks that you’re being treated as a potential thief. But you’re the ones who called for the heads of those eating into the big supermarkets bottom line.
Look, I love self service checkouts as an introvert and this would piss me off. It’s a massive invasion of privacy and wholly unnecessary. I wonder what the ICO would say?
Went to bnq other day, had a basket scan, of one item, when I was buying one item.
First the get rid of employees who scan every item because paying people is expensive. So they make customers scan their stuff. Then they tell customers they don’t trust them to scan their own stuff, so they put barriers up so you can’t leave until you’ve done your job… sorry, shopping correctly. But they still don’t fully trust customers, so they now make sure to monitor every little action action a bot to keep you in check.
I think tech can be amazing, but this is just making customers the employees and the criminals and the issue with the supermarket system. The cost don’t drop for customers, so I now use the manned tills. I’m fed up with tech chosen to make life worse.
It’ll be genuinely interesting to see how far they can push this before jokes about airport security and VAR tips into actual consumer badwill.
The average supermarket shop would already be quite surreal to someone from 10+ years ago.
They could easily solve the problem just by getting rid of self-checkouts.
The nets that they put on any drinks over £10 are so annoying! It’s impossible to scan without the bloody thing going off, but then the staff are not allowed to take it off until after you’ve paid.
Shoplifters near me don’t use the checkouts. They just grab things from the isle then run through the doors. Having a video at the checkout isn’t stopping those who are stealing £1000s is it.
Its purpose is data collection pure and simple which is why I don’t sign up for club cards or apps. If I ever find out they’ve sold my private information I’m taking them to court.
Baffles me how big of a problem people are making this. There’s already cameras which show your face and the scanning area. I dont understand why this is any different? Especially given how often people complain about shoplifters.
Do they think thieves use the self checkout?! They run in, sometimes mob handed, grab a case of beer or trolley full of stuff and leggit!
Better idea is (i can’t believe i’m saying this BTW) to make EVERYONE who enters the store tap thier card before they get access. If you only have cash, a £20 (or whatever) cash deposit that is refundable or deducted from your shopping bill.
As usual, the dishonest and criminal actions of the few make life shitty for the rest of society.
Like speed-humps, most of us don’t race around like tit heads but because a fraction of people do, we ALL get to enjoy speed-humps and traffgic calming measures, that by the way DO NOT stop unlicensed / uninsured dangerous driving tit heads from speeding.
My local supermarket never staffs the checkouts appropriately, I can’t even start scanning until they approve my bags on the scale which often takes several minutes
They need to stop introducing anti-theft features that slow everyone down until they have enough staff to keep it all moving
VAR check complete: shopper number 426 was offside.
Stopped shopping at Tesco when they doubled my prices for not being in their little points cult.
Seen these in sainsburys. It was a nightmare. Apparently I scanned nearly every object wrong and had to persuade the machine that the thing that I moved passed the scanner and registered on the scanner was in fact scanned
They’ve had this technology in Australia for a year or two now, it’s widely hated there, too. False positives coming up all the time