Sam’s Club employees are going to stop checking your receipts on the way out. I can hear cheering. But Sam’s Club is still going to scan your receipts….. and your clothing…… and, I’m guessing your brain while they’re at it.
Sam’s Club is going to install scanners run by A.I. You’ll walk through tall metal rectangles on your way out. They kind of look like old school metal detectors. Except that these will be intelligent and keep track of the items humans need most; the 5 pound containers of Cheetos, 16 gallon buckets of barbeque sauce, and 30 foot inflatable up elves.
Then they’ll know how to really hurt us.
These scanners have something they call “digital eyes”. They’ll be able to scan the bar code no matter how you have things arranged.
They’ve already tested the devices in Dallas and Joplin, Missouri. I guess they were shooting for two completely different ends of the city spectrums. They hope to have them in at 600 Sam’s Clubs by the end of 2024.