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AliExpress or Amazon.

You go to your favorite search engine and enter "universal barrel key."

It looks kind of like a screwdriver. Ask The Lockpicking Lawyer.

They still gotta find the ONE employee who has the friggin keys.

Being earnest here, I don't. What's the difference between a normal camera and a security camera? If it's used for surge pricing, absolutely it's terrible. But if it's being used for shoplifting like cameras have been used in stores for forever, I'm not grasping the big deal of these ones. Is it just the potential of them using it for bad (which honestly they probably will)? There's cameras all over aisles, checkout areas already

Perfect, draw my attention so I remember to fuck with it

Why?

The only part of that not really possible with ceiling cameras is eye tracking, you don't need eye-level cameras for the other two.

One man's cost is another man's profit.

At some point, Walmart execs sitting on a pile of NVIDIA stock won't see this as a loss for them. It will just become an excuse to trim spending - on healthcare, on wages, on wholesale costs, on maintenance of their fleets and facilities - everywhere that isn't AI.

You vastly underestimate how cheap and prevalent that sort of AI stuff already is. The upfront costs are high, and there's usually some sort of ongoing support cost, but it's been much cheaper than people since ~2020 and it's only been getting more prevalent and miniaturized.

I'd encourage you to peruse https://everseen.com/solutions for some dystopian horrorshow. That is one of the companies that Kroger and Walmart 'leverage their capabilities from'.

There's also the b2b quid pro quo investment schemes already mentioned.

And also that retail insurers are one of the major ones helping to 'drive adoption of these innovative ermergent technologies' as both the retailers and insurance are constantly trying to scam each other for profit 'maximize the potential earnings from their synergistic, mutually beneficial, relationship'. For further reading

Seems easier to just look at how many were rung up at the till...

Part of it was illegal, part of it was that their way of doing business pushed people away. Suppliers didn't want to negotiate with Walmart and workers generally weren't desperate to work there.

I still have rather fond memories of shopping at Walmart in Germany. Tho I was a child and it always was more of an experience than a chore. Then Wexit happened and the world's gone to shit ever since

(likely) face identification and other surveillance of regular customers, if any data at all is created by that and analyzed or stored by anything that is a grave GDPR violation. Surveillance cameras for larger areas can be allowed but only to record for cases of legitimate control, no automated analysis nor data transfer to god knows where.

Personalised pricing is illegal as well in a supermarket. Digital price tags are allowed (and common) but there are clear rules how often prices are allowed to change. I'd have to research it myself but I think not more than once a day.

They actually tried it in the EU but failed hard.

was gonna ask, what aisle is electrical tape in?

I was thinking a box of cereal, but I like the cut of your jib!

only by necessity for me. the next cheapest store is on the other side of town with at leat a couple dozen traffic lights and intersections between us.