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[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Don't do that, they keep track. When you go over $1k, you get fucked and picked up for a felony.

[–] Fish@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Are you being sarcastic? There is 1 person manning 10 checkouts and cameras that aren't monitored. As someone who worked in the Front End of a grocery store for many years, I can tell you that they don't have the resources to keep track of 99% of theft.

[–] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Walmart has AI keeping track of theft at self checkout. They don't use that as a basis for in-person stops, but they still record it.

And they have a small team of plainclothes people looking at camerad and sometimes straight up following people around the store.

Speaking of cameras, in addition to regular cameras, in the big metro areas there are around twenty 360 degree cameras that can see across the entire store at any time, even when playing back a recording. If you have line of sight, it sees you.

[–] Fish@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am mostly just familiar with Kroger's LP, but in my experience their loss prevention is pretty ineffective. They have a lot of cameras installed, but they aren't being constantly monitored. There are actually only a handful of loss prevention personnel, and they spend the majority of their time walking around in stores. They will occasionally catch someone trying to steal a whole cart of groceries or a kid stealing a pair of earbuds. The majority of theft is actually either at self-checkouts or people walking out the doors with pockets full of merchandise. There are also people who regularly get caught stealing, and loss prevention will always keep an eye out for those people.

I didn't work in loss prevention, but I would occasionally have to review security footage in the security office. The cameras, even in the newer stores, were pretty low resolution and had a lot of blind spots. They are put there as a deterrent more than anything else.

I assume Walmart probably has better loss prevention than Kroger, so you could be correct. Though, I doubt all Walmart stores have AI SCO tracking or 360-degree-recording cameras.

[–] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

My experience is as a manager in three different high-loss stores in a metropolitan area. I assure you, the cameras are very good.

Now, when you're zooming across an entire store the image does "bounce" up and down a bit, but it's still good quality.

With the AI, I think it's still in development. Again, it isn't used as a primary means of apprehension, but it's definitely a tool in the arsenal.

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