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Supermarkets to deploy technology to keep count of customer ingress

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2020-09-18 13:27:51 from the Automate! Automate! dept.
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Once again, supermarkets are enhancing the customer experience by engaging automation to replace humans. Since the COVID pandemic started many stores have had to count how many people enter and leave the store. Woolworths will introduce customer counting devices [news.com.au] to do this task instead of human staff, taking care to avoid the debacle experienced by the TSA by storing the images as blocks to ensure a level of privacy is afforded customers.

Can I apply for a job to be a machine?


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