Vent: I saw a 'smart' grocery store in Seattle using AI to watch people shop... and it felt wrong.

I was in this new market in the Capitol Hill area last week, and they had these tiny cameras over every single aisle. A sign said it was an 'AI inventory system' that tracks what you pick up and put back. They claimed it helps with stock, but it felt like being watched every second. The manager told me it cuts waste by 15%, but that's a big trade-off for zero privacy while you're just trying to buy milk. Has anyone else run into this kind of tracking and felt the same way?

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thomas27512d ago

Ugh, it's everywhere now, not just stores.

david_rivera47h ago

Honestly, saying it's "everywhere" feels like a stretch. Most places I go still have regular paper tags. The digital ones are just in a few spots, usually bigger stores trying something new. It's not like my local diner or hardware store has them. This tech is still pretty rare in the grand scheme of things, so calling it everywhere is just fear talking. People always get weird about change, even when it's not actually taking over.

xena_brown5012d agoTop Commenter

Reminds me of when my pharmacy got those digital price tags that change on their own (it was weird).