WM better hire 100's more associates to work at the stores if this is implemented. This is FT work if I ever saw.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14263536/1/smile-walmart-s-cameras-are-watching-you.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO&yptr=yahoo
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my face would have been "unhappy" this morn. haven't shopped w/m for a few weeks so i did today. fruits produce were empty, meat counter stripped down shelves not stocked either. couldn't find half of what i wanted. get to check out 2 cashiers with lines. shoppers are quickly moving away from w/m in favor of other stores. w/m just doesn't get it on so many levels.
It's an invasion of privacy to even consider using facial recognition for this, shoppers should say NO to that right away. Beside that, the notion that Walmart can scan someone's face and determine if they are happy or unhappy with the shopping experience is beyond stupid, can this technology read minds too, because that is what it would need to do.
Do the geniuses that came up with this think that a shopper has nothing in their life outside of shopping at Walmart that could be linked to their expression, or that some people don't have a smiling expression all the time, and that's just the way their face is?