Face Scanners at Tesco

I have shared and tweeted this. How bloody dare they! Will they be putting cameras over our beds next to see which brand of contraceptives we prefer?

I believe this is only at their petrol stations for now - but I think it is the thin edge of the wedge and is an invasion of privacy. I think everyone should boycott the stations they put them in.

How to drive customers away in one fell swoop!

I can understand why a petrol station might use CCTV to detect forecourt crime if it was a serious problem. But this is a step too far. Have they no shame?

Shame? Tescos? (or any of the big ssupermarkes come to that)

I shall keep a face mask in my handbag......and anticipate a few interesting discussions about whether I have the right to cover my face.

Elegran

Another reason not to fill up at Tesco.

Perhaps there's something to be said for niquabs after all

Which man thought that one up !

Dust off the hoodies or, following my daughter's experience with a member of staff in Clevedon yesterday, stop using them altogether. Yes to the supermarket in question, I do hope you ARE reading this!

Ah - at last I find a use for the stick on moustaches my daughter bought me last Christmas. That should confound the beggars. The only slight flaw in my dastardly plan is that I don't actually shop (or buy fuel) at Tesco.

The only mask I have is a sleep one! If I wear that I won't be able to see what I'm doing?

I never shop at Tesco's but if I did I'd stop right now!

LizG what happened at tescos then?

CCTV cameras are everywhere and do help with crime but are still very intrusive but not used for monetary gain - I hope. Hopefully Tesco will give it's customers a warning as they head into the shop - I rarely shop there but if I do I will cover my face with a scarf. I may even rent a burka for the purpose.

My local Waitrose petrol station has a camera because they have been plagued with people filling up and driving away. I do not have a problem with that. Fortunately I do not have a Tesco for miles around and if I did I would not be buying from there.

There is a very simple solution, do not look at the television screen.

The system works by taking a picture, assessing our age and sex and showing what they consider an advert appropriate to our age and sex, it then registers how long we look at it. If we do not look at it at all the system will feed back to the advertiser that their campaign was a complete failure.

If I am forced to use a Tesco petrol station I will either pay at pump or, if that is not possible, read my Kindle while I am in the queue, making both assessment of age, if not sex, difficult and, I will clearly not be watching the screen.

Well good luck to it detecting my age - the info the advertisers get back will be years out and of no use to them.

Im 21 dontyaknow.

I think I shall buy a large floppy hat and an all-enveloping scarf. That and sunglasses will make an ideal shopping outfit (not that I ever buy petrol, but it is only a matter of time before the scheme is extended to include cameras on every aisle watching what we buy)

I already get personalised money-off vouchers from Tesco with my club-card statements, based on whatever I have bought recently. I am reminded of science fiction stories, where fridges and cupboards are restocked automatically whenever something is used up.

Sounds very elegant Elegran Perhaps we should all turn up at our nearest Tesco similarly attired!

Elegant.....but then we'd all look like Stepford Wives!

I wonder what they would advertise to Stepford wives? Deep cleaning products, lacy underwear, "please your man" recipes?

They used to print 'please your man recipes' in Woman's Own and the like. With 'are you a good wife' quizzes such as

Q If your husband is late home from work and his dinner is ruined do you...

a) Pour him a stiff drink, tell him with a smile that dinner will be delayed, and start again from scratch? or

b) Put the ruined meal in a pan with a tablespoonfull of curry powder and put some rice on to boil? or

c) Make a big fuss and watch regretfully as he puts his coat back on again and heads to the pub?

There should be other alternatives :-

d) Put your coat on too and say "where shall we go?"
e) Phone for a takeaway.
f) Open a tin of beans and make some toast.
g) Suggest he finds a job where he can predict when he will be home.