Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

  • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know about Walmart but I heard Target will facial recognize you and deliberately wait across multiple trips until you have stolen enough to make it grand theft before taking action.

    • Neondragon25@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I did Target security for a few months. Yes they build cases against people until it’s criminal action. It’s also not subject to one store. Rather I could just type in descriptions of people (apparent age, height, skin tone, etc) and it would search those descriptions. I could then match the person and add it to the running total. When I left I heard that some markets were rolling out an AI to track people. I can answer any questions if there’s anyone who want to know more.

      • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Do you know how long do they keep video for, or is it just eternity?

    • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Is that tracking distributed across stores or do I have license to steal $9999 from each one?

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Probably the amount stolen within the same state. But once you’re committing crimes across state lines, you’ve got bigger problems on your hands.

        And yes, they definitely share data across their whole company.

    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      deliberately wait across multiple trips until you have stolen enough to make it grand theft

      That is illegal so I doubt it.

        • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Im not a lawyer for but from what I understand, intentionally not prosecuting someone until they commit a target number of crimes is illegal / voids the previous crimes. (In the US)

          • Dud@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Yea that’s completely wrong, that’s just called building a case and collecting evidence.

              • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                9 months ago

                That’s just the most recent article I could find, you can go back over reporting on the same for at least a decade.

                • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  Fair enough. I’m sure they likely are doing this, why wouldn’t they if no one’s stopped them. Even while being technically illegal in the US as another user stated, FBI or local police involvement wouldn’t be surprising in the slightest, unfortunately.

                  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                    9 months ago

                    I highly doubt it’s illegal for a private entity to withhold reporting a crime until they have enough evidence to be actioned on. They made a claim without providing any sort of source backing it up, and the fact that many companies do it points to it being legal, at least in most places they operate.