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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a security measure.  When shoplifters are identified, their facial characteristics are in the system so they can be identified quickly in the future, and ejected or monitored closely if allowed to remain on site.  Only stores with a high rate of "shrinkage" are using this tech.  Don't steal, and you have nothing to worry about; your face is of little intrinsic interest to anyone if you're behaving yourself.  Or take your business elsewhere; I'm sure Wegman's would prefer to patronize a different store if you think you have something to hide by showing your face at a Wegman's property.  [/quote]

The shoplifting problem is grossly exaggerated and now many stores act aggressively against innocent shoppers. I heard on a police scanner yesterday, employees from a Dick's sporting goods in Ashburn called the police because two black women were in their store shopping - one had a mask on - and they initially said they were shoplifting. Then the police dispatcher clarified that the employees said that employees from a store near them called and had assumed the women were shoplifting so they called the police saying they were shoplifting and assumed they would do it in their store. I would sue both stores if this happened to me.

I have been treated this way and am fed up. I wear a mask and some stores assume you are wearing it to shoplift. And no, I'm not going to stop wearing it. When idiot employees decide someone is a shoplifter, they do all kinds of things against corporate policies that are likely to get their employer sued.

Employees will buzz you - ie walk past you several times so close they almost run in to you. They actually are discouraging you from shopping and want you to leave.  At one store, the same employee ran into me physically on two different occasions. I called corporate and complained and people were fired and they gave me $ without me making a single threat to sue. They'd already been involved in a situation where a shopper was treated openly like a shoplifter and were sued. I'm so fed up now, I will sue.  My point is, store employees are acting inappropriately and assuming people are shoplifting when they are not. These face scanners mean more people are going to be treated as shoplifters and you'll never be able to get off that list. Also piss off an employee at a store - like wear a political shirt they don't like, and watch yourself get on their list. I've also been ripped off at several stores where they assume I am a shoplifter. I've seen that I've been overcharged several times and recently a woman I didn't know was buying the same Christmas item I was and she was ahead of me in line. She got the 60% discount advertised for the item and I had to argue with the employee to get the same discount.

People are idiots and I think lots of employees enjoy thinking and want to label people as shoplifters. [/quote]

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