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Unfortunately, supermarket products would be difficult to distinguish without imagery.

• itake 4y ago
  even then, why does it cost 28k PER YEAR, for photos of product images? Can't you just spend a week in a market taking product photos yourself?
  • mtmail 4y ago
    They could but at this point the (claimed) damage is already done. The price is high but I'd imagine that company guarantees high resolution professional photos of every product. Chasing the last remaining 10% products might be hard. At 160.000 products, let's say spending 1 minute per product (finding it, post production etc) at 12h/day it takes one person 9 months. Crowdsourcing the task might work.
  • michaelt 4y ago
    [1] is a report of Tesco reducing the range of distinct products they stock from ~90,000 to ~63,000. Some of which will be seasonal items like easter eggs. Some others will only be available in certain stores. I suspect taking 63,000 product photos, and keeping them all matched up to the right products is probably more than a week's work. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/30/tesco-cuts-range-products https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/30/tesco-cuts-...
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