Face Scanners at Tesco

This really wouldn't bother me - unless that is they then started offering me products for some one much older.....

Very true FlicketyB!

It just occurs to me, why worry about them if all it can do is calculate sex and possible age the chances of showing an advert that might be relevant to that particular person is very small.

For example, the majority of Gransnetters are female and probably over 60 - and that is about all we have in common our incomes run from very tight to very comfortable, our attitude to clothes goes from track suit and t shirt to designer, our eating choices from limited by price, to no cook convenience to organic and cook from scratch. Some drink alcohol, others don't. Some love soap operas, some do not even own a TV and so on and so on.

So when on the very rare, less than yearly occasion I use a Tesco petrol station and their camera assesses my sex and age the chances of the advert they then show me being of any interest to me is very remote indeed.

Shop online ...

a) Make faces to distort your picture
b) Wear dark glasses to obscure eyes
or
c) Get petrol at S.......y's or elsewhere!

Tenna lady? Voltarol gel?

My eyes are watering at the thought of the connection.

I can think of so many ways to get fun out of sabotaging this daft plan!

I think I may be tempted to look at the camera, just to see what they deem age/gender appropriate for me. Tenna lady, voltarol gel ??

h) your dinner is in the dog

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LizG what happened at tescos then?

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

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

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.

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!

Which man thought that one up !