Not sure why this is a thing, or how long it's been a thing, but thanks to Sainsbury's I can now re-live and learn from my packing mistakes.
I can almost hear Jamie Carragher lamenting my positioning while the Lime Cordial played a sneaky offside trap
by stereoworld
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You’re going bald champ. Better book a trip to Turkey.
At least Carragher can’t gob in your face
What did the VAR say?
Well that feels weirdly threatening. “We’ve got the top of your head on camera mate, so don’t try anything”.
Listen, fair play. They took their time but came to the right decision in the end.
“Sir, please don’t urinate there.. this is a Wendy’s. I mean Sainsbury’s.
This is where I shrug my shoulders and walk away.
Self SerVARce
Look at that technique, what a finish!
Is that a horse head???
I thought this was a goose viewed from the front
It’s to reduce theft – I work with people designing the PCs that run in these devices and it’s designed to recognise people pretended to scan an item and then pocket it.
Even just having a camera and a screen with no recording or monitoring gives a measurable reduction in thefts through self-service checkouts.
Ooh and that’s a bad miss !
It happened to me in Sainsbury’s yesterday as the packet of basil I bought was too light. They must be a new thing as they weren’t there when I last went in
They have them in Asda aswell I think it’s on a trail stage though
To tackle the cost of living crisis they’re finding new ways to prevent theft. It’s class war.
I hope this was like tennis Hawkeye replays and the queue behind you clapped increasingly loudly until the lime cordial didn’t scan.
At least you know your not going bald.
Oh great, their self-checkout system is already so underspecced that it takes 30 seconds to respond to a scan ½ the time, adding extra functionality is just going to make the whole thing even more clunky and shit.
Gotta say, Sainsburys are pissing me off atm. Those fucking travelator things constantly break and the one near me really needs to sort their trolley game out because it’s fucking abysmal (you get up the shitty travelator and guess what — no fucking trolleys!).
And breathe.
What’s naughty is that this camera angle easily picks up your phone screen, and any passwords you might be typing in to access cards.
That shit is the reason I now go out of my way NOT to shop at Sainsbury’s. You either trust me to scan that shit for you or you don’t. Choose and act accordingly.
Maybe they could hire employees to do the scanning of products rather than computers scanning us.
“Looks like that last item didn’t scan.”
“Please check you scanned it correctly before continuing. We wouldn’t want to think you’re a filthy fucking thieving bag of twats now would we? There’s a good boy. “
Tesco has same system too now
Put my bag on the shelf and started scanning. Id scanned my stuff and pressed pay. Then I saw that the previous shopper hadn’t paid and the amount was still showing on the swipe thingy. I called the assistant over and showed her. She said that people scan their stuff, swipe their card and because of the time lag between swiping and the system wanting you to insert the card they’ve picked up their stuff and gone.
What’s the point of having a photo of the top of their head
Next it’ll be “Those apples look a lot like sirloin steak”
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