#supermarket
#Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
#economy #supermarket #business #pay #news #technology #future #video #job #shopping
#SUPERMARKET GIANTS TO CRACK DOWN ON #SHOPLIFTING WITH FACE-SCANNING TECH
Source: https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2023/09/11/shoplifting-surge-police/
The biggest retailers in the #UK, including #Co-op, #Tesco and #Sainsbury’s, have agreed to implement new face-scanning #technology, which looks to help the #police crack down on #shoplifting.
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According to The Times, #Pegasus is set to receive £600,000 from ten supermarkets including #JohnLewis, Co-op, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, #Waitrose and Next.
The supermarkets pay for the surveillance so that the police can do its job? That sounds more like #cyberpunk than #1984.
#Orwell #cctv #bigbrother #surveillance #video #news #crime #security #politics
About #inflation in #Austria 🇦🇹
Source; https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275
I compared 40 product pairs across the two biggest chains. And lo and behold: their prices matched exactly to the cent! 🛒
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We could also show that the exact same product cost up to 40% less in #Germany, a country with higher mean income and higher cost of living. 🤷♂️
#economy #capitalism #corruption #crime #profit #money #finance #exploration #supermarket #fail #society #politics #Europe #eu #justice #price
#Lidl #PawPatrol snack recall due to link to explicit #website
The website #URL listed on the Paw Patrol mini biscuits and yummy bakes was compromised and now contains the explicit content.
Make love and do not get fat from too much sweets.
#hack #porn #hacker #economy #security #fail #children #UK #supermarket #content #problem
Italian #court rules #food #theft 'not a #crime' if hungry
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36190557
Mr Ostriakov, a #homeless man of Ukrainian background, had taken the food "in the face of the immediate and essential need for nourishment", the court of cassation decided.
#poverty #humanRights #justice #hunger #capitalism #news #society #supermarket #Italy #europe
#Wasteland – #Europe’s #plastic #disaster
Source: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2023/wasteland-plastic-recycling/
Back in 2015, the EU presented an action plan for a circular #economy and vowed to “close the loop”. In the #future, raw materials like plastic should circulate endlessly. From production to the #supermarket, to the dining table, to the rubbish bin and back to the recycling plant. New plastic would seamlessly emerge from old. In a closed, circular system, raw materials would be reused again and again, and looming #climate and environmental #crises would be averted.
But as new #research by Investigate Europe documents, the #EU is still far from achieving this seven years after presenting its #recycling plan.
In the modern #supermarket you can see most clearly how far the #technology has brought our #civilization, provided that you can still afford the #food after inflation.
#UK #supermarket #inflation hits record high, making shoppers hunt for bargains | Supermarkets | The Guardian
The biggest rise is in basic foods, you know, the ones which nobody can do without, least of all the poor.
UK supermarket uses facial recognition tech to track shoppers
Attached to the ceiling above the gray shiny floor, watching as people enter the store, is a camera. The device scans faces, matching them against a corporate database of suspicious, potentially criminal shoppers who have been placed on a watchlist
The cameras are in breach of data rights and individual privacy
Every time a customer walks into a shop or business that uses Facewatch’s system, a biometric profile is created
Facewatch also adds to their watchlist subjects of interest posted on police websites
If staff have reasonable grounds to suspect a customer of committing a crime, whether it’s shoplifting or disorderly conduct, they can add the customer to a Facewatch list of “subjects of interest.” Facewatch’s policy notice says that the police also have the power to upload images and data to Facewatch’s system.
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uk-supermarket-biometric-cameras/
#UK #privacy #CCTV #BigBrother #supermarket #corporate #spying #PoliceState #China #Hikvision
In #Germany, people without #cash are currently starving in front of full supermarkets because the electronic #payment system has failed nationwide due to an expired #certificate.
#FirstWorldProblems at their best. And there are still weirdos who believe they will survive the end of the world with #Bitcoins when not even much simpler #technology runs smoothly.
#btc #fail #software #banksters #money #pay #supermarket #trade #economy #problem #security #finance #news
Best cheap supermarket food and drink: the own-labels that beat the big brands - Which?
With grocery prices on the rise, swapping to cheaper supermarket own-label options can be an effective way to cut your food bill. Switching from your beloved brand favourites might seem like a wrench, but our taste tests have uncovered plenty of great-tasting supermarket own label alternatives worth trying, which we've rounded up below. Ditching the brands can add up to some surprisingly big savings, with some of our top own-label picks costing less than a third of the price of branded options. Swapping from Innocent orange juice to our recommended 'Great Value' orange juice, for example, could save you nearly £100 a year alone (based on one bottle per week).
Read more: https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/best-cheap-supermarket-food-and-drink-the-own-labels-that-beat-the-big-brands-aZyW11P2L9ul - Which?
#Cheap #Supermarket #Food&Drink #Beat #BigBrands
The world's biggest #meatcompany is built on #corruption and it's growing in #Australia
( #FourCorners)
You may not have heard of them, but JBS is the biggest meat company in the world. It controls a lot of the food you buy in the #supermarket including #beef, #pork, #lamb and #salmon.
You'll even find their meat between your #burger buns at #McDonald's.
But despite its size and reach, JBS is a #company built on #corruption and bribery; tainted by charges and accusations of malpractice and #environmentalcrimes.
Why?
#exposingJBS #JBS #labourexploitation #environmentalimpact
Ukrainian retail chains remove #CocaCola products from #sale due to its continued operation in #Russia
source: https://ua.interfax.com.ua/news/general/807324.html
"Our supermarket chain no longer cooperates with the Coca-Cola company, which continues to operate in the territory of the aggressor. We are abandoning all products belonging to the brand," the Novus #supermarket chain posted on Facebook on Friday.
#Ukraine #economy #protest #company #ethics #moral #politics #news
I'll share a thought on the general topic of €€. Now I'm browsing the pages of german-way.com, a fine blog post collection of US-ians living as expats in German speaking areas of Europe.. about life, and living here. Amusing culture shocks included, and a few looks into mirrors. A good read. Thank you for linking there @Clarice Boomshakalaka Bouvier!
So, while we Germans were always reluctant to adapt credit or other cards in the first place, the pandemic years certainly helped push that idea. Cashless is king now (however local attempts like the Geldkarte sucked balls already 15 years ago, and never took off). To the point where normal banks, i.e. those that have both ATM and in-person service, are mostly gone (to be fair, that development started maybe a decade before, with branch closings). When I moved here there were 5 banks in easy walking distance. Now, just one is left, and its the one that requires the longest detour.
Essentially, my only convenient way to get cash now is at the supermarket. There, you pay by card, and withdraw cash while you're at it. "Ich möchte noch Bargeld abheben bitte" is what you say before taking out your card. Still we're slow at this too: technically, 20 years ago that was the way to go in the UK, called "cashback", and very common there but unbeknownst to continental Germans. Only the last few years changed that.
But abundance of the no-fee ATM has ended in Germany, so sometimes you take that extra trip to the supermarket in order to withdraw some cash. Seriously, we do that here, because fully cash-less doesn't work.
But. Supermarket cashiers only take girocards, tied to a "real" current account, for this. No credit cards, no fancy internet-only banking cards. No visa, no Amex, no Master card will get you cash. Inconvenient for some.
So, while waiting in line the other day, two American ladies probably younger that 30 waited behind me, giggling and fuzzing about how to reach the minimum purchase of 5€ to be allowed to use the cashback feature. They went for three Christmas-y chocolate santas and a gift box of eggnog in small bottles. But, the fancy internet-only newgen credit card she had wasn't accepted by the system, and the shop lady said "you cannot use a credit card for cashback, you'd need to..." and was cut off by the ladies leaving the till that very instant.
Just like that, gone, rushing past me while I was packing my things in a bag. They could have said "sorry, I didn't buy into your overly complicated scheme" or simply "Oh, I didn't know". Yes, Germany still is complicated and sometimes demanding.
#ramblings #cultureshock #cash #euro #girocard #alltag #supermarket
"The US has only four major #supermarket chains -- although there are a lot of different brands, many supermarket brands are subsidiaries of the big four." https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#19_November_2021_(Grocery_cartels) #pricefixing #cartel