Micro Cameras Digital Shelf Labels & AI Identity Harvesting Coming to Grocery Stores
[May 20, 2026 (14:30)]
Thought readers would find this rather alarming.
ArmstrongEconomics: The Grocery Store is Becoming a Surveillance Center
Why Does Best Buy Have Cameras in Their Price Tags? Image Credit: 9 Gagger |
Grocery stores are already building extensive consumer profiles using purchase histories, browsing activity, online searches, and third-party broker data to infer everything from your economic status to health conditions and family structure. The stores can categorize customers as “not price sensitive” or identify people based on lifestyle and purchasing behavior. Think carefully about what that means once artificial intelligence is connected to dynamic pricing systems.
Looking into this subject, I found multiple articles including Consumer Reports--a highly credible source for information.
How and Why Retail Stores are Spying On You
Going back years, CT&Reasoning has had numerous post regarding the Building of Our Own Digital Prison.
Alright, post 600-and-something is underway.
Next, we are going to look into claims of election shenanigans in the Massie House race; instead of posting faulty information, I usually like to wait a few days for the dust to settle.
Be back soon,
Drake
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