Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…

Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It wasn’t luck. They tried and failed, on account of how many of their normal practices are illegal in the EU.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Part of it was illegal, part of it was that their way of doing business pushed people away. Suppliers didn’t want to negotiate with Walmart and workers generally weren’t desperate to work there.

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    • Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like two sides of the same coin.

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  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still have rather fond memories of shopping at Walmart in Germany. Tho I was a child and it always was more of an experience than a chore. Then Wexit happened and the world’s gone to shit ever since

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m interested, what makes it illegal?

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  • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    (likely) face identification and other surveillance of regular customers, if any data at all is created by that and analyzed or stored by anything that is a grave GDPR violation. Surveillance cameras for larger areas can be allowed but only to record for cases of legitimate control, no automated analysis nor data transfer to god knows where.

    Personalised pricing is illegal as well in a supermarket. Digital price tags are allowed (and common) but there are clear rules how often prices are allowed to change. I’d have to research it myself but I think not more than once a day.

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• thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not yet, at least. It seems that they operate almost everywhere else though

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  • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They actually tried it in the EU but failed hard.

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