Amazon's Just Walk Out technology
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@dkf I'll become the buyer one of their camera. wholesale?
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@anonymous234 said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
The reward is you get to skip social interaction.
Hi, how are you today?
*grunt*
Doing anything nice at the weekend?
I wonder if it's too late to take all my shopping to the self scan lane?
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@TimeBandit said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
@flabdablet said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
I'm assuming there's incredibly tight face-matching surveillance from parking lot to rear shelves. I'm also assuming that all the stores will be sharing a central database of faces and that law enforcement will also have unfettered access to that.
Facial recognition doesn't work well on
womananybody wearing a nikab/burkaThat's why we need to get rid of these terrorists. If they have nothing to fear they have no reason to hide their faces
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@Yamikuronue said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
I tend to scan alcohol first, so the cashier has time to come by and card me while I scan the rest of it.
When I've bought alcohol, knives or other age restricted stuff at self serve, it's usually deferred until the end. Nothing when you scan it but when you go to pay it gets authorisation for all the restricted stuff in one before you can proceed
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@Dragoon said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
The only thing I wish is that you could select the don't bag once and have it apply to the entire purchase. When I am only buying a few things why would I need a bag?
Stick them in the bagging area straight on the scales, then pick them all up at the end
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My local Tesco has ten self-service tills, and for some reason they changed it so that eight of them are cash only.
Almost no-one uses cash here so it means lots of people queuing for two tills while eight sit mostly unused. There's also the occasional person who mutters, 'Why are all you idiots not using the empty tills?' while pushing past, then making a shameful retreat to the back of the queue once they've read the signs.
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@21emon said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
Wondering how many cameras to put in one store. is Amazon put it for every single rack of stuff or something?
It would be fun to get a flash mob to turn up at one of these stores in Tony Blair masks and find out how good the people-tracking software is at Three Hundred Card Monte.
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@21emon said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
Wondering how many cameras to put in one store. is Amazon put it for every single rack of stuff or something?
Drones. Everywhere.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
@21emon said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
Wondering how many cameras to put in one store. is Amazon put it for every single rack of stuff or something?
Drones. Everywhere.
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@HardwareGeek said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
@TimeBandit said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
Why bother with it ?
When they were first introduced, hardly anybody used them and they were almost always quicker than waiting in line for a human cashier. I guess now it's mostly habit, except that a lot of the time nowadays I do a full week's grocery shopping in one trip, for which the self-checkout is not so practical, so I go to the live cashier.
One of the store chains in the Midwest US has started putting 4 non-express self-checkout lanes in its stores.
It works... poorly to put it nicely.
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I just realized... if Amazon could bring this technology to the home, you could track what you eat 100% automatically and 100% accurately.
Meaning real-time calorie counting and nutritional balance warnings. Which would be kind of a big deal for people who care about health.
They could call it Amazon Pantry... wait, shit.
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@anonymous234 Please perform all activities in view of the Panrty.
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@LB_ said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
@anonymous234 Please perform all activities in view of the Panrty.
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Self checkout will never happen here, people here are too dishonest. Maybe this Amazon thing would work if it gets cheap enough.
