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Engineering360: "Walmart Patents Smart Shopping Cart"

10/10/2018 10:13 AM

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Re: Walmart Patents Smart Shopping Cart

10/10/2018 10:55 AM

Turning "ambulance chasers" into "associate customer chasers" maybe?

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Re: Walmart Patents Smart Shopping Cart

10/10/2018 11:33 AM

This statement is laughable, "Assuring its customers that the shopping carts would not be used to collect personally identifiable information," is like saying, "Trust us, this system can't be hacked, so why worry?"

Any electronic data gathering system CAN and WILL be hacked and used by criminals.

I've had my "protected" data hacked at least four times. And that's only the ones I been told about.

No thanks!

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Re: Walmart Patents Smart Shopping Cart

10/11/2018 8:38 AM

How about ditching the data collection and just have the cart provide me a map to where an item is? That would help lower my blood pressure considerably.

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Re: Walmart Patents Smart Shopping Cart

10/11/2018 9:31 PM

Funny, most of the carts in our local store pull to the left, pull to the right, have only 3 wheels on the floor, or clunk, clunk, clunk because of flat spots on the wheels.

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Re: Walmart Patents Smart Shopping Cart

07/06/2020 6:38 AM

Wow! So glad Walmart is addressing the common issue of passing out in the grocery store. Possibly Walmart can book my next doctor appointment while I shop. Walmart engineers or whoever is filing patents need to get out of their headset!

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