"Just Walk Out" stores.............the future of shopping?

[LibertyWeeps]

Running off my other post about Aldi and self check outs.............................

This one is about even more future idealized tech. Shop n Leave. Or, as they call it "Just Walk Out".



You need an account with the company. You can get a scan card or you can just use the scan code on your phone to enter and leave. This is how it charges you.


The video isn't that long, and it is very interesting.

Would you use a store like this?

HAVE you used a store like this?

 

[Concerned American]

Would you use a store like this?

Nope. I still believe cash is king and I don't like how every tom, dick and harry that has a business believes they should have your financial information with accompanying rights to access your bank account. Again an emphatic NO. BTW, as an afterthought, how many cashiers are going to be out of a job as a result of this?

 

[The Duke]

Cash is king, no computer-linked BS for buying groceries.
To datamine ya and track everything you do. Fawk that.
Cash is freedom, cards are slavery. Listen to what I say. I'm not kidding.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Running off my other post about Aldi and self check outs.............................

This one is about even more future idealized tech. Shop n Leave. Or, as they call it "Just Walk Out".



You need an account with the company. You can get a scan card or you can just use the scan code on your phone to enter and leave. This is how it charges you.


The video isn't that long, and it is very interesting.

Would you use a store like this?

HAVE you used a store like this?

No. They have been tried before and failed.

 

[DGS49]

So "we the people" want workers in skut jobs to make a "living wage," dammit, and we don't care what it costs!

But that's not really true. When prices go up, we are, let's say, reluctant to spend as much money, so merchants and those that feed us MUST replace some humans with machines, so their prices don't get to a point where their customers just say, "**** it."

Unless I need a human clerk, I go right to the self-checkout lines. I don't resent it in the least because it helps to control prices.

 

[Leo123]

Checkers can become inventory sorters.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Amazon stores have been doing this for years

 

[Concerned American]

Checkers can become inventory sorters.

What happens to the folks that already perform these duties?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

We already have walk outs

 

[egp320i]

Running off my other post about Aldi and self check outs.............................

This one is about even more future idealized tech. Shop n Leave. Or, as they call it "Just Walk Out".



You need an account with the company. You can get a scan card or you can just use the scan code on your phone to enter and leave. This is how it charges you.


The video isn't that long, and it is very interesting.

Would you use a store like this?

HAVE you used a store like this?

50% theft, yeah that shrink will put you out of business, might as well

 

[Leo123]

What happens to the folks that already perform these duties?

They'll need more for a store like this. There is categorizing, weighing, etc. Might as well just pay cashiers to do it.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Nope. I still believe cash is king and I don't like how every tom, dick and harry that has a business believes they should have your financial information with accompanying rights to access your bank account. Again an emphatic NO. BTW, as an afterthought, how many cashiers are going to be out of a job as a result of this?

Theres one way around that.............if you ever want to go full tech.

Open a savings account specifically for shopping via tech methods. Get a debit card for it.
This way, you can transfer or put cash in the account before you go to the store.
Everything you buy is from that savings account. So, if anything ever happens and it somehow gets hacked........they aren't getting your money from your main account......only the little bit thats in that savings account.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Cash is king, no computer-linked BS for buying groceries.
To datamine ya and track everything you do. Fawk that.
Cash is freedom, cards are slavery. Listen to what I say. I'm not kidding.

True........but cash is becoming obsolete. What then?

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Amazon stores have been doing this for years

Yes, but they are test stores. So much testing needs to be done on a "self managing" tech store of this kind.
It needs years of beta tests, tech tests, program tests, people tests, and maintenance tests before they go national.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Theres one way around that.............if you ever want to go full tech.

Open a savings account specifically for shopping via tech methods. Get a debit card for it.
This way, you can transfer or put cash in the account before you go to the store.
Everything you buy is from that savings account. So, if anything ever happens and it somehow gets hacked........they aren't getting your money from your main account......only the little bit thats in that savings account.

Thats a really good idea.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Thats a really good idea.

In this day and age..............it is one of the BETTER safety features for your bank accounts.

Whats REALLY good about this process is that you can go to a different bank or savings bank and open up a savings account for shopping via tech style. This way, if they do happen to break into your savings account, theres no way they can even try to get your regular account info, since it's a completely different bank.

But I don't think the hackers would ever get that far, as hacing one account is ballsy, but they'd have to spend too much time trying to find the info for your other account, which would leave them getting caught by the safety systems of the bank.

 

[Concerned American]

Theres one way around that.............if you ever want to go full tech.

Open a savings account specifically for shopping via tech methods. Get a debit card for it.
This way, you can transfer or put cash in the account before you go to the store.
Everything you buy is from that savings account. So, if anything ever happens and it somehow gets hacked........they aren't getting your money from your main account......only the little bit thats in that savings account.

Sure, I want to have a separate account for every place that I shop? Much easier to hand over the coin of the realm and be done with it. Why does a vendor require my name, phone number or any other personal or banking info.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Sure, I want to have a separate account for every place that I shop? Much easier to hand over the coin of the realm and be done with it. Why does a vendor require my name, phone number or any other personal or banking info.

You don't need an account for EVERY place you shop.

If you want to get cash from your main account and shop, more power to you. Super safe and secure.

But if you want to buy stuff online or via a payment app of some kind.........it is best to protect your main account from being hacked, with a separate spending account you add money to before you shop with online payments or app payments.

A lot of "rich" people do this......so their main accounts never get hacked. Unless they are being specifically targeted by the hackers themselves.

 

[Invisibleflash]

Running off my other post about Aldi and self check outs.............................

This one is about even more future idealized tech. Shop n Leave. Or, as they call it "Just Walk Out".



You need an account with the company. You can get a scan card or you can just use the scan code on your phone to enter and leave. This is how it charges you.


The video isn't that long, and it is very interesting.

Would you use a store like this?

HAVE you used a store like this?

Dunno if I would use it.

A black guy with a backpack at Aldi did a walkout with a bag full of meat. A white lady next to me rang up all her big cart of food and walked out without paying at the checkout. That is how walk out stores work in the Rustbelt, bub.

 

[Concerned American]

You don't need an account for EVERY place you shop.

If you want to get cash from your main account and shop, more power to you. Super safe and secure.

But if you want to buy stuff online or via a payment app of some kind.........it is best to protect your main account from being hacked, with a separate spending account you add money to before you shop with online payments or app payments.

A lot of "rich" people do this......so their main accounts never get hacked. Unless they are being specifically targeted by the hackers themselves.

A little better than 50/50 odds of not having your personal financial data breached. No thanks.

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