Walmart up to new tricks- spying on customers (highway, party, state)
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They are tagging the underwear so when Glenn puts them on his head, the chip will count the GBBFs, and will will have quantitative stats on how much BS will have to be countered.
ok, we get it, you hate glenn beck with a passion, now please go away.
Evidently effective 8/1/2010 Walmart started to use RFID chips in its underwear and jeans. If you don't take the tags off and throw them away before you leave the store (after you pay for the items), they can follow you home.
Google has assembled the largest data base about people and their habits in the history of the world. They know more about people that use their services than Big Brother knew about Winston Smith in 1984.
Not sure what emily's political persusian is but I always wondered why the left dislikes Wal Marts so much.
Never hear a peep form the left about Google or Target or Starbucks or Whole Foods. All those companies do the same stuff as Wal Marts.
Google has assembled the largest data base about people and their habits in the history of the world. They know more about people that use their services than Big Brother knew about Winston Smith in 1984.
Not sure what emily's political persusian is but I always wondered why the left dislikes Wal Marts so much.
Never hear a peep form the left about Google or Target or Starbucks or Whole Foods. All those companies do the same stuff as Wal Marts.
Must be a union thing.
As do Safeway, Giant Foods, the local hardware, Shell Oil, Cabela's, Mack's Prarie Wings, Whole Foods, Browning, Remington, Jos. A. Banks, Macy's, etc.
If you listened to the first clip. They plan to have readers that can be affixed on cars that when driving by your house can scan your trash can of various RFID chips from whatever items you bought; record your home address and sell that information to corporations. Additionally they want to have RFID readers that are strong enough to read your drivers license info inside your wallet so they know exactly who it is that is looking for X, Y and Z items in their store. Additionally, these readers pose health risks from the elctromagnetic fields.
Isn't anyone opposed to this kind of sneaky invasion of privacy?
I can't believe there are so many appathetic naive Americans that blindly trust HUGE corporations and the government without question....given their recent HORRIFIC TRACK RECORDS!
Sorry this is a hard sell. It's depressing enough listening to stories from walmart employees told to sit down watching a shoplifter in action because insurance prohibits them from intervention. They went on to mention to me that prior employment at home depot was worse-- one joker walked out the door with a generator costing thousands. Guess who paid for that generator?
It would be far more pragmatic for you to offer alternatives as to how store shrink could be mitigated rightfully than complain about these tags. Walmart isn't in the business of harassing law abiding citizens. Pure logic- those are the customers they mean to keep. Don't you agree?
More then likely it's for inventory control as you leave the store.
28 Size XXL's
2 Size M's
fed back into the computer. This way they can tailor inventory to store demographics. Note above..this Walmart serves an area of "big boned" people
fat is a better word. at 5' 10" 155# at most stores I have to go to the kids dept. one store gets one of each only in mens med winter shirts and a clerk I know calls me and I buy all 5 of them,that's it for the year!I'm talking flannel cons't shirts
More then likely it's for inventory control as you leave the store.
28 Size XXL's
2 Size M's
fed back into the computer. This way they can tailor inventory to store demographics. Note above..this Walmart serves an area of "big boned" people
Even the krogers here can't just scan one item and multiply it by whatever because if there were flavor x mixed in with flavor y of catfood, they might order too much y and not enough x. It's a preliminary inventory system at the register setting things in motion far as I can tell. The more intensive physical inventory is much less frequent. I think some stores even stretch it to quarterly if they don't have perishables involved.
The range on those things isn't particularly great, you know.
You get awesome range on garage door remote controls. Drive through suburban neighborhoods and find out how many didn't read the directions to change the standard mfg code from 000 to something else. LOL
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