Australia

@Joshi @shinyrat Mitre 10 is still around.

@Joshi
It's also less and less of a hardware store and more and more a crappy homewares store. If you need actual hardware—timber, metal, proper tools etc—or god forbid, advice then you are out of luck if a hammerbarn has killed all the hardware stores in your area.
@shinyrat

I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.

For me:

I go into giant warehouse size of small city

find what i want, price is decent

i go through self checkout and leave

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everytime I've been has been fine? except when I look for a small widget that has 10 in stock on the website but there's none on the shelf because scumbags have stolen them all but 99% of the time it's fine

Damn that's kinda creepy

Well, not really they have face recognition on the entrance to see if you match one of the scum bags beating their staff or stealibg shit and it's deleted, there's no tracking. If you do match there security staff are alerted.

Taking them at their word, your image is deleted after 0.2s and they have no idea who you are anyway. Your anonumous scan just doest match said scum bag.

I'm ok with it if what they say happens does happen, an audit by the privacy commissioner should conform that either way and then thy can clear them or expose them. Instead they just said don't do it.

It's nothing like biomteric scans at airports where who you are is matched to your facial scan.