sturger

Just looking at the thumbnail, I assumed the person was going to have 6 finger and thumbs on the outside.

We would all be better off replacing CEOs with AIs. They’re both simply confident bullshitters.
People keep thinking CEOs are leaders. They actually PR hucksters who get paid a lot of money to pump stock by lying.

Perhaps keeping an old phone for purposes of doing this scanning thing might be ideal.
That’s an excellent idea!

all grocers have a ‘cashier’ desk where you get lottery tickets.
Ha! Great observation. There’s no way in hell stores are going to give up on gambling cash. :-)

I would actually install the vendor’s phone app if they built in this functionality instead of having these terminals.
I think you’re right, but I dread it. I avoid installing apps. The thought of installing even more tracking for multiple vendors annoys me.
Although I am resistant, your point about bagging once is a true benefit.
One downside, that system doesn’t seem to support cash.

Good point. A US department store chain – Kohl’s – has been using electronic shelf labels that change several times per day. Not sure how they handle the discrepancies. How do I prove the product was prices $1 when I picked it up if the label now says $2? Is it my responsibility to notice the register price was different?

I more or less avoided Kohl’s, so I’m not sure how that was handled.

I saw demos online where they could also determine heart rate through video. The example I saw was a video of a newborn’s face.

I’ve heard of similar, but how exactly does this work? Does it say $0.99 on the shelf and the receipt winds up being $1.50?

robo voice: There are 352 hot, single women in your area.

robo voice: 350 of them have a pulse.

Shoes. Bought a pair of Bass shoes from the Bass online store. The shoes that arrived were completely different from the ones I ordered. The picture on the shoebox were what I wanted, but not what was in the box. Explained the issue and returned the shoes. The replacement shoes were exactly the same. I returned and gave up.

Capitalism’s goal is profits. Not helping the customer, selling more, or anything else. We’re in late-stage capitalism, so it is ‘Profits Uber Alles’.

They’re failing because they hired a string of accountants as CEOs. Undoubtedly they conceded to Wall St pressure to sacrifice research and engineering funding to goose short-term profits. 4 of those and there’s no recovery from that nose dive.
Tomato tomato.

It was. Wall St is destroying it, along with everything else in its insatiable drive for more profit. Everything must be sacrificed to the golden idol.

Also, don’t waste money on doctor visits. Let Bing diagnose your problems for pennies on the dollar. Be smart! Don’t let some doctor tell you what to do.

IANAL so: /s

People are good and care about good things.

We have trouble understanding what’s going on because the average person can’t comprehend the levels of greed that modern Wall St capitalism selects for.
Just like the average person cannot comprehend a million years, the average person can’t appreciate the level of avarice some of our rich and powerful operate at. Only a few of us have interacted with people that broken.
There a tons of good people and good businesses out there. They are currently victims to levels of avarice we can’t bring ourselves to admit exists.

Intel.

Your door is ajar.

I am definitely not an outgoing or social person, but a big “Thank You” to all those pro-self-checkout folks ITT for making me feel like a social butterfly. I’m gonna brag and annouce I can say, “Hi.” and “Thanks” to a cashier like a goddamn boss.

That is if the cashier isn’t even more socially awkward/angry at their boss than I am and refuses to talk at all.

Woot! I’m gonna run for office!

Reporter: “Sturger, how are your policies going to improve life for the average voter?”
Me: “Get these goddamn cameras and microphones out of my fucking face. Thanks.”

Camera pans as I push my shopping cart out the door like a pro.

One of my first tech interviews was a company that was building a “virtual reality” that we would all (pay them to, of course) live in. They were debating how to create avatars. I was so new I had to ask what an ‘avatar’ was.

That virtual environment effort failed and so has every one since. 30 years later, we still have no virtual realities of any significant scope.

Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.

Ironically ew music has never been more accessible, but few people take advantage because of the noise we have to wade through.