I want less data collecting in my life, not more. Things like this make me fear a feature where every move we make and thing we speak are analyzed and scrutinized to better manipulate us via advertising. 1984 was meant to be a warning, not a guide book.
Co-founder of Standard here. I agree. Our goal is to use this technology to streamline our lives, not to invade privacy. We don't do any biometrics or facial recognition, and we don't send video to the cloud for central storage. We have a fully on-prem solution. The only need for Internet is to push out updates to the local system.
What about bagging your goods? Does this actually speed much up checkout given that you still have to serially process the stuff in your cart at the exit?
You can walk out with the bag you came in with.
correct 98% of the time will not be good for some stores as grocery tends to have a very low profit margin.
Co-founder of Standard Cognition here. Help us increase the accuracy, we're hiring :-)