Yep no more âbrown onionsâ for everything. People did this to themselves but no doubt theyâll find another loophole. I wonder if you could trick it with a photo of onions covering whatâs on the scale.
Comment on Daily discussion thread: đ Monday, April 29, 2024
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I noticed a new thing at Woolies self checkout. Previously when you put fruit and veg on it youâd have to select the fruit and veg button and get the frequently bought items menu, and go from there. Now, itâs using a recognition system where it offers a selection based on what it thinks you have put in the scale. For example I bought cucumbers, and it offered me a choice of cucumber or zucchini to select. For a leek, it gave me leek, zucchini or banana.
bull@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
weezmgk@mastodon.social â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
@SituationCake Billion-dollar corporation extracting free labour from you to put a union worker out of a job. Self-checkout is scabbing. I like to smile and wait for the one checkout person on shift. @Seagoon_
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Funny you mention that. I was buying some mushrooms (safe edible ones) and put them on the scale and selected the vegetable thing and it automatically suggested mushrooms to me as an item instead of me having to search for it.
Iâm going to have to keep an eye on if I buy more fresh veggies at Woolies from now on.
rusl@mstdn.social â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
@SituationCake I gave up on buying fruit and veges at Woolies a couple years ago when they added the cameras. I bring my own fruit/vege bags, which are white cotton. I refuse to use plastic bags. Cameras couldnât see the contents and locked the check-out every time. It was a good reason to switch to the independent fruit and vegetable shop next door, which I should have been using all along.
bastardsheep@aus.social â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
@SituationCake @ajsadauskas Is there an option for âmystery boxâ?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Camera?
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yes I would say so, with some image recognition software.
ajsadauskas@aus.social â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
@SituationCake @Seagoon_ They also have another camera pointing at where your basket is.
It's "smart" enough to notice if you place something from another shop in your basket, or if you put a bag from another shop in the bagging area.
But.
It's not smart enough to realise that Chemist Warehouse bag probably isn't something you got from Woolies.
So when you go to pay, it will show an error message, and call over an attendant.
And the attendant will take one look at it and go, yeah, that's not from here.
It wastes your time, and the attendant's time.
spmatich@ioc.exchange â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
@ajsadauskas @SituationCake @Seagoon_ if they could bottle the rage that âself serviceâ checkouts produce they could run a city the size of Melbourne for a century.
ppossej@aus.social â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
@ajsadauskas @SituationCake @Seagoon_ it's also not smart enough to recognise red onion peel left behind in your basket.
My biggest gripe is that it assumes malicious intent as default behaviour.