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- GeorgesII0
here's goes your $15/hour,
- face_melter1
I mean, I already use automated checkouts and pay by card because I actively shun human contact at every possible opportunity. BUT. There seems to be something inherently off-putting about Amazon moving into bricks and mortar food shopping.
- Yep, they contributed to destroying them by saying there is a better way, then they do a major back-pedal.ETM
- hans_glib0
well i think it's great. i only ever use supermarkets to buy basic shit, food i get from propa tradurz, coz i iz hipsta innit. i fucking hate supermarkets, the queues, dorks and shitty (christmas) music - everything about them - so anything that minimises my time in those hell holes is good news.
- Uh, the christmas shit is more painful than anything on that list and it's a solid list.CyBrainX
- fruitsalad0
Shop lifting just got legit.
- computer vision: they will have your face in 20 angles, last thing you want is to be inserted in an amazon DB as a thiefGeorgesII
- https://www.youtube.…drgs
- fruitsalad6
Honestly, I hate cold impersonal supermarkets and the whole concept of it. 90% of supermarkets is processed ready meal crap.
We've got to the point where we don't need till staff, aside from when you get the 'unexpected item in baggage area'... soon it'll be like these Amazon shops, a "give me that" " i want that, i take that" walk in and grab it american style consumerism.Me Me Me, Want Want Want.
Give me a proper market any day, local produce, raw ingredients, sense of community, sense of seasons, familiarity, personality, human interaction, "please"and "thank you's" and "how've you been?":
- polite-chatting with the cashiers is the worstdrgs
- +1000, yes sir. Bored of this inhuman dystopian present/future they are selling to us...OBBTKN
- < thisfeel
- Albertsons ripped out their self checkout because it ruined customer relationshipsHayoth
- everything was either bite-sized or single portion. everyone there was a millenial. where are the families? where are the people shopping for their families?exador1
- I do the same (well as much as you can in UK). Love building a genuine relationships with shop staff.
http://boroughmarket… (I'm s'uth of the river?)mugwart - everyone in the flouro lit supermarket looks miserable.inteliboy
- ernexbcn0
I don't think the phone tracks anything. The phone is just like a boarding pass. Once you scan the code your phone has on entrance from that moment you are being tracked by video throughout the whole store.
- that's were all the deep learning, computer vision, etc part got lost on most people thinking this is just "an app", this is pretty advanced shiternexbcn
- so the trick here isn't going out without paying, the trick would be going inside the store without checking in :)ernexbcn
- RFID.sted
- the way I see it, an array of capacitive sensors, coupled with rfid radars, computer vision and deep learning to make it learn and anticipateGeorgesII
- what i can't understand is why are they advertise this with AI and deep learning? is there something real behind it or it's just the same old buzzword marketingsted
- I'm sorry, you can't buy that extra pizza - our deep-learning AI which controls our produce forbids it.face_melter
- embrace tracking and deep learning and get over with it.
I INSIST amazon tracks how many condoms I buy per weekdrgs - (none)drgs
- meaning that i'm a perv or running a bordel lol. i can't wait to hear "YOU'RE TOO FAT TO BUY THAT PIZZA" in morganfreeman's voice.sted
- @sted, when you look into it, it's a lot more scarier than you think. We will probably regret it, but now let's enjoy our AI masterlordsGeorgesII
- It's more than just RFID @stedernexbcn
- i agree, but that's my best guess, that they use NFC or RFID to track the products...sted
- sted0
- GeorgesII0
We made an rfid project and you would not guess the number of store that move to rfid tags,
you can track every item in real time in a store,
you can track number of items on the floor, the number of them in changing room, etc etc,This is the main reason security looks really relaxed in big clothing stores because they see
- jaylarson0
I imagine this incorporates similar tech as their Flow app and Xbox connect to track our movements. I'm curious to walk into the store with some infrared specs on to see all the lasers. LASERS!
There'll be bunches of cameras and a team of security in each store, too I bet.
- ernexbcn0
Just think about it @sted. RFID might be in use for the actual items on shelves, but if you place all the detection on the phone it would be very easy to defeat plus it puts a burden on the actual phone and you'll limit who can buy on the store based on if their phone supports RFID.
My theory is that the app is just a means to identify you and know who are you (amazon account). Once you go in you are being tracked by video and all the items you grab are added to your bag and charged once you leave the store.
It's a combination of computer vision, RFID on the actual items/shelves etc.
- i'm sorry i was suggesting that they use RFID for the products only... and you're right that's why NFC is a better idea. I really don't know just thinking...sted
- pango0
nahhh i prefer self check out.
plus i remember all the codes for produces.
few things you can do if you know them codes. lol- An interesting point, how does amazon deal with things in bulk or sold by weight?ETM
- they pre weight it? ugh that seem like a lot of work.pango
- But then they are dictating my portion. Which can further contribute to waste.ETM
- I wouldn't worried about it. Most people pick the better looking potatoes. All the perfectly fine ugly potatoes goes to waste at regular grocery store.pango
- sarahfailin0
Works great for individually packaged items in rows. How does it work for bulk foods, produce like limes and bananas? Can it tell how many bananas you picked up?
- You mean the very thing we're talking about right above?ETM
- drgs0
What if I take a bottle of juice, drink it up, and put it back?
What if I do the opposite of stealing:
I find the same items in a different store to a cheaper price, but them on the shelf... Will I be credited money?
- cbass990
What if I have coupons?