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My Target mini-store downtown has no checkers at all. It's self-check or nothing (or steal I guess). I hate self-check. Always buying that fruit or piece of lu
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
My Target mini-store downtown has no checkers at all. It's self-check or nothing (or steal I guess).
I hate self-check. Always buying that fruit or piece of lumber or whatever that won't scan or has no sticker or whatnot, then having to navigate the touchscreen to find it among their 1M items.
Fortunately this store ignores the scale (so no 'put item in bagging area' nag) and even though it shows you on a screen from a surveillance camera, those signals go no further than the station. No bandwidth in Target's in-store network for all that video; no storage for it either.
And the mini-store is made items, not a lot of produce for instance, meant for students and loft-residents to buy readymade lunch or whatever. So everything is coded.
- op00to 3y agoI’ve read of multiple instances where Target specifically saves recordings of customers at self checkout to wait until a customer steals enough to get to felony theft at which time loss prevention sets in. I am apt to believe target stores all their self checkout video, or simply has other cameras not connected to the kiosk that record individual customers actions at self checkout.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoMy contact in their data center, responsible for those kiosk's software, says otherwise about the kiosk cameras. There are other cameras at portals; I know they can 'look' at those remotely. My sons used to finger their friend in Minneapolis as they entered then text him a location/timestamp so he could look it up and enjoy their greeting.