Many Target and Wal-Mart locations are adding security cameras and monitors right on top of the check-out.
As one person observed:
.@Target self checkout is really creepy pic.twitter.com/kepeZr7dOJ
— Steve Beynon (@StevenBeynon) October 18, 2017
I have seen one up close and had the same reaction. The monitor with a live feed of your face is staring right back at you. I have never seen anything like that before.
As another person declared:
Wow thanks target self checkout camera for making me feeel like shit about myself. Also good on you target for the irony of "self-checkout"
— Alex Garcia (@maydayalex) June 1, 2017
On the other hand, as a thief on Reddit declared:
And a 2016 study claims 20 - 33% of people were regularly stealing from self-checkouts.
So what do you think? Creepy? Necessary? Any alternative processes or technologies that could be used?