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Another agenda hidden under the guise of ‘convenience’.
MORE SMART TROLLEYS
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths is expanding its Scan&Go smart trolley trial to an additional 25 stores across the states of New South Wales, and now Victoria and Queensland as well, following a successful test run.
“After the initial roll out to ten stores across New South Wales, customers have told us using the Scan&Go trolley has resulted in a faster and more convenient shopping experience,” said Woolworths 360 Managing Director, Rob McCartney.
“We have noticed that over 70% of Scan&Go Trolley users are repeat customers, which supports our expansion into Victoria and Queensland respectively. Young families in particular have told us Scan&Go trolley is helping them balance their budget, as they can track their spending in real time.”
The trolleys are now available in stores such as Erina, Green Hills and Hornsby in NSW, at Chirnside Park, Malvern and Moonee Ponds in VIC, and at Burleigh Heads, Caloundra and Capalaba Park in QLD.
The Scan&Go trolley, a “first-of-its-kind digital shopping solution in Australia”, was launched in August 2024.
The Scan&Go trolley is an advancement of existing Scan&Go technology, designed to “provide a more convenient shopping experience without the need for customers to use their mobile devices”.
It is designed to “enhance the shopping experience by allowing customers to scan and bag items while keeping track of their spending in real time”.
To use, shoppers unlock a tablet-style device using their Everyday Rewards card, attach it to their trolley and begin shopping, with the ability to monitor budget on the device.
“Scan&Go trolleys are just another way for customers to shop their way, and we’re pleased to add another convenient option, alongside our offering of traditional shopping in-stores,” McCartney added.
This is a worldwide transition to complete automation of supermarkets.
In similar fashion, Instacart — a U.S-based company — rolled out ‘Caper Carts’ which use similar AI to identify items, their price and the weight of produce. This allows for “stress-free check out with a click on a touch screen”.
It will always amaze me how people can’t simply walk into a supermarket, stick to their budget, and walk out.
The smart supermarket dystopia is coming very quickly, ladies and gentlemen.
In the future, not very far from now, the goal is for almost everything to be completely automated.
A world where biometrics, surveillance and AI fuse to bring shoppers the ‘ultimate experience’.
A reflection of exactly where most of the world is headed.
FUTURE OF SHOPPING
Although many may simply see this measure as an ‘evolution in retail practice’, carrying on and ‘improving’ a process that has been around for years, it is quite the opposite.
Those people aren’t looking at the bigger picture, or the stated plans Woolworths has
When it comes to checkouts, artificial intelligence will eventually phase out the need for checkouts all together, as supermarkets switch to biometric identification measures. Like the ones seen in Amazon Go stores across the U.S.
Interesting that the timing of this goal is 2030. I’m sure that’s just a ‘coincidence’.
The eventual plan is to have people sign up for an account (being trained with this new measure today), scan their faces, and instead of paying for their items when leaving the store at a checkout, the customer simply walks out, and the camera recognises who they are — charging their account automatically.
Woolworths has been at the forefront of the NWO shift.
The organisation trialled cashless payment systems at 11 CBD stores across these regions in 2020, announcing that these locations would not be accepting cash payments from customers.
They then expanded the use of a new self-serve checkout feature at hundreds more locations across the country, using camera surveillance and AI scanners to detect when items are not put through self-checkouts correctly.
But it’s not just Woolworths doing this ‘smart’ push.
Not to be outdone by their ‘competitor’ (it’s all the one giant hoax monopoly), Coles is along for the ride themselves, introducing ‘smart gates’ that lock customers in the store, and ‘hybrid self-checkouts’.
This is for the people that are even going into the stores, too.
Let’s not forget that statistics show most people under the age of 40 years old are ordering groceries and takeout via apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash, further pushing us towards the Huxleyan ‘utopian’ world vision.
Meanwhile, the corporate masters behind the scenes control everything that happens — from price gouging, to so-called ‘shortages’, and everything else under the sun.
Now, more than ever, we must support the little people. Local butchers, shops, etc.
Don’t give any more power to these corporations.
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I can see this as a big fail. I gave up on self serve because of too many things going wrong and having to wait for service, so might as well line up for a manned check-out and pay cash. So what happens when the Scan and Go trolley has an issue, are they going to come running or do you have to go to the service desk? No thanks.
I won’t mention any brand names, but I now shop at an ‘alternative’ smaller chain that’s local to me – have stopped going to woolies etc. The staff know me by name and I often have a chat with them – turns out a lot of them are in the ‘freedom community’. Granted some things are more expensive, however the quality is better, and the big chains are overcharging for rubbish and non-organic. The downside will be when more people discover the alternative – the carpark is tiny!
That’s awesome. I get an order of organic produce delivered each week from my local supplier, supporting small business.Yes quite expensive but the quality and taste is amazing. I also grow some produce now because it is so expensive. I also try to buy bulk grains, nuts etc online from smaller businesses too. I only use the supermarkets fro certain things like frozen berries and toilet paper and then I might as well get it delivered rather than drive, shop and cart it when I have to do it all myself.
Well done, Hamish…I do likewise.
Speaking of Amazon Go stores, didn’t it recently come out last year that the AI being used for it’s “Just Walk Out” technology was actually being manually corrected by a team of 1000 workers base out of India? And that the AI was only correct 30% of the time out of all transactions being made? Yeah I don’t you see you being able to walk into a store pick up an item and simply simply exit the store and have the fund automatically deducted from your bank account anytime soon if the technology in question isn’t up to scratch! At least not yet. Most likely they’ll have you use an app on your phone, you scan your phone to enter the store, then you scan the products you wish purchase with the app on your phone, once finished pay for the items via the app on your phone and then you will be able to scan out the leave the store. At least that’s how I see it being implemented.
I don’t trust it. I saw a doco recently about how Nigerians are being paid pittance to “feed” AI and often the companies don’t even pay them. You can see ahead too many issues with payment etc. And if you are overcharged it will be weeks before you get your money returned, not good if you are living pay to pay each week or on welfare.
Ugh at a minor level it’s yeah do more work yourself. Big corporations annoy me. Where’s the customer service.
Every time someone says yes to their nonsense more rights and freedom is lost.
No way !
Exactly!