Posted on 10/15/2013 2:09:02 PM PDT by EveningStar
Starting in 2015, high-tech shelves, equipped with built in cameras could appear in grocery stores to watch us and get intelligence.
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Looters hit hardest..
“I see WalMart people!”
>> “I see WalMart people!”
LOL! They could syndicate a teevee show from the camera feed. The syndication fees and ad revenue would double the store profit in some areas.
Wear a hat and big dark sun glasses, carry a small can of spray paint. Problem solved.
I spoke to a Publix manager and he told me that as the economy got bad more people were shopping with lists and not browsing down the isles and impulse shopping.
Live zoo cam, complete with coverage of feeding frenzies and fence-jumpers.
One of the current areas of focus is improving on-shelf availability in stores, for which it is building custom hardware that incorporates highly-precise cameras located on the store’s ceilings that will monitor the level of goods on each shelf.
This is an extension of the work Kroger has been doing with Zooter/cameras that are fixed to the ceiling and encased within a dark dome-shaped glass covering, which are used to garner a wide variety of data for analysis - including video images and radio frequency signals from various devices located around its stores.
“We have a very rich RF (radio frequency) environment in the ceilings of our grocery stores. We radio track [customer] movements via intelligent shopping carts, temperature monitors, and our own hand-held devices that are carried by all employees,” he explains.
It is not uncommon for a new store to have 130 Zooters fitted with cameras that Bonner says gather data for analysis. This data is then used to build intelligent store systems - including potentially its advanced on-shelf availability solution that, the retailer hopes, will dramatically improve inventory management.
Current intelligent store applications include a high performance video surveillance solution - utilising the high specification cameras - which is used for fraud management. But as well as acting as a deterrent against shrinkage the data that is picked up by the devices also enables in-depth analysis to be undertaken that encompasses the monitoring of customer behaviour in-store.
www.just-food.com/analysis/krogers-drive-to-improve-availability_id122051.aspx
If I didn’t know better, between the NSA tracking our emails, phone calls, etc. and now grocery store shelves being equipped with cameras, I would think I was living in communist Russia.
Facial recognition software will be applied to all these grocery store cameras to tie them in with the rest of the system in due time.
Time to invest in an obama mask. All Nabisco products just got banned from this house and I won’t be shopping at Kroger.
Hmmm. Most of the food we purchase is used, with the orange Manager Special sticker, on a shelf or bin in the back edges and corners of the store. Nearly expired, dented cans, damaged boxes, marked half off.
Will they be tracking those spots? If so, okay.
You are better off buying the freshest produce you can get at a reputable supermarket as close to an urban area as you can. Upscale suburban areas are the best as their customers tend to be well-heeled and demand the best. Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are the best of the supermarket chains for produce but if you can find some good locally owned places in those areas, even better.
That said, the majority of the packaged food at Trader Joe's I would stay away from. It's good stuff but very dense in calories and fat. If you are going to buy frozen food however, Trader Joe's has some of the best frozen fish I've ever had but you have to resist all those snack items in the upper shelves.
As for meats, I stick with the butcher shops as I prefer my meat freshly cut and not sitting around in shrink wrap packages for who knows how many days. Also remember that most supermarkets dye their meats to make them appear fresher than they really are.
Whole Foods is the best overall place to go for food. I load up on cheeses, breads, eggs, yogurts and other dairy products. They have the best selection of nuts I've ever seen and they make peanut butter fresh in the store. Yeah, a lot of liberals shop there but I'm not letting them have the monopoly on good food. I love parking there in my pickup in the space designated for "fuel-efficient" vehicles. I consider my F-150 fuel efficient as the tank doesn't leak and I use every drop.
I'm a pretty frugal person overall but I don't skimp on the food that I put in my body. Only the freshest and "bestest" will do.
It’s only a matter of getting people to accept it now.
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