Aldi Creepy self service cameras at checkout

Amazon have those stores here in UK. You walk in pick up and walk out. Gets billed to your Amazon account automatically.

Click and Collect: A modern process which is of invaluable assistance to those with mobility or other issues for whom shopping in store is very difficult. 👍️

LIDL in East Wall has self service checkouts iirc, so some LIDLs have them, not sure what criteria LIDL are applying really. That is a busy store but maybe has more basket type shops.

More like a modern process of getting rid of stuff that's going to be out of date soon.

Common misconception. I never have an issue with expiry dates or soon to be out of date stock.

The shopper can put in notes about expiry dates or any other requirements, (substitutions etc) when placing their order.

If there is anything the shopper is dissatisfied with, it can be handed back for a full refund.

It's an old process, refreshded with clicks.

Back in the 50s, rich housewives could phone their orders in ahead. Others could drop an order in, and pop next door to dobsome other errand while the shop assistant picked for them.

It illustrates the point that processes change: another poster was irate that they are asked to scan their own groceries (cos its someone else's job), but quite happy to be doing their own picking. They don't see that picking is also someone else's job.

There's no one best approach to this stuff, and processes for change all the time.

Funny to see those who misunderstand GDPR railing about misunderstandings of GDPR.
While there is nothing in GDPR that prevents use of CCTV cameras in store like this, there are very specific obligations about how they are used. At a minimum, Aldi need to inform customers that they are being recorded, and set out details like what information is processed, for what purpose, how long will it be retained, how to access any data retained, how to get data deleted as required and more.

A quick look at Aldi's online privacy policy doesn't give any hint of them processing images of people, which absolutely do constitute personal data, even without any tattoos on the forehead.
https://www.aldi.ie/privacy

When Penneys put in these cameras in Dundrum, I pushed them a bit for details, as they too had nothing in their privacy policy. They replied stating that they don't record anything at the tills, which seems a bit strange, but would fit with the gaps in their privacy policy.

The first shop in the world to employ scan and shop was Superquinn in Lucan. It must have been over twenty years ago.

The topic is about cameras in the self service tills themselves. Pointed at your face, with a bit of the display showing your face looking back at you. I've not see it yet, but heard of it in a lot of UK shops. US too, I believe. Apparently coming in here now.

I most certainly don't see picking my groceries off the shelf as someone else's job and don't know how you can surmise it's contradictory to do so because I refuse to scan my shopping myself. See my post regarding Click and Collect.

I prefer to choose my own vegetables, fruit, poultry and meat as there can be a huge difference in quality and in the case of meat fat content.

I'm one of those people that actually enjoy grocery shopping (much to my wife's delight).

Well spotted. I suspect that those cameras were there all along and aren't specific to the self service. I'll have a look for more of them on my next visit.

When it changed to self service picking from shelves it was exactly like the introduction of self scan…jobs were cut. The customer was then doing somebody else's job.

l'm not getting into an argument over a trivial thing, but they are very similar situations at very different times and the public reaction to both is certainly comparable.