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I noticed a new thing at Woolies self checkout. Previously when you put fruit and veg on it you’d have to select the fruit and veg button and get the frequently bought items menu, and go from there. Now, it’s using a recognition system where it offers a selection based on what it thinks you have put in the scale. For example I bought cucumbers, and it offered me a choice of cucumber or zucchini to select. For a leek, it gave me leek, zucchini or banana.
@SituationCake I gave up on buying fruit and veges at Woolies a couple years ago when they added the cameras. I bring my own fruit/vege bags, which are white cotton. I refuse to use plastic bags. Cameras couldn’t see the contents and locked the check-out every time. It was a good reason to switch to the independent fruit and vegetable shop next door, which I should have been using all along.
@SituationCake Billion-dollar corporation extracting free labour from you to put a union worker out of a job. Self-checkout is scabbing. I like to smile and wait for the one checkout person on shift. @Seagoon_
Funny you mention that. I was buying some mushrooms (safe edible ones) and put them on the scale and selected the vegetable thing and it automatically suggested mushrooms to me as an item instead of me having to search for it.
I’m going to have to keep an eye on if I buy more fresh veggies at Woolies from now on.
Yep no more "brown onions" for everything. People did this to themselves but no doubt they'll find another loophole. I wonder if you could trick it with a photo of onions covering what's on the scale.
Camera?
Yes I would say so, with some image recognition software.
@SituationCake @Seagoon_ They also have another camera pointing at where your basket is.
It's "smart" enough to notice if you place something from another shop in your basket, or if you put a bag from another shop in the bagging area.
But.
It's not smart enough to realise that Chemist Warehouse bag probably isn't something you got from Woolies.
So when you go to pay, it will show an error message, and call over an attendant.
And the attendant will take one look at it and go, yeah, that's not from here.
It wastes your time, and the attendant's time.
@ppossej @SituationCake @Seagoon_ Assuming malicious intent is the worst part. They make you feel like a shoplifter every time you enter the store!
They're the ones who took over almost all the independent supermarkets and chains. (Remember Safeway? BiLo? Franklin's No Frills? Jewel? Tuckerbag? Festival? Rainbow? SSW?)
They're the ones who jacked up prices during a cost of living crisis and made billions.
They're the ones who ripped out humans at the checkout and replaced them with self-checkouts.
They're the ones that replaced most of the brand-name products with their home brands.
They're the ones that decided to clog up their aisles by doing night full during the day to save costs.
And then they assume we're the ones with a malicious intent!
@ajsadauskas @ppossej @SituationCake @Seagoon_ I want to know why their systems can't determine how many avocados I'm buying
@luciedigitalni @ajsadauskas @ppossej @SituationCake @Seagoon_ Another housing affordability issue.
@ajsadauskas @SituationCake @Seagoon_ if they could bottle the rage that “self service” checkouts produce they could power a city the size of Melbourne for a century.