To stop shopping at Tesco if ^this^ is introduced?

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Tesco plan to introduce a facial recognition scanner to allow adverts specific to your age and gender to be targetted to you at the till. www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24803378
This seems overly intrusive and would put me off shopping there, AIBU?

I can relate to the sensory overload issue Vetta - I probably have attention deficit tendencies. Though it might be a minority that find it a significant problem I think you might find a surprising number of people put off by this much "in your face" noise and hassle!

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Sorry Vatta not Vetta - kind of typifies my typical kind of problem

Yes think it was in Minority report Notundermyfoof, but wasn't that a dystopian future- hope that's not where we are headed! For now mostly worried it will mistake me for an old man (short hair and a bit saggy!).

I'd probably get 'Hello Sir we have a special offer on Old Spice' as I have short hair and look old and haggard. We'd need a whole new topic on here to be outraged in!!

I've already scored a victory over the nearest filling station by telling them if they continued to use the screens and loudspeakers built into every pump to chunter advertising at me I'd be using the other filling station. It's the same price and not much further, and is on my regular route anyway. I think some other people complained too. Anyway, job done, they've turned the sodding things off.

Wonder if they will be selling Electric Sheep too...

Nope YANBU.

My bf would have a field day massive rant if this happened and I think he would go as far as boycott the shops that use them..

He is big on privacy and against reward cards and Hates giving his details out if he is ordering online.
Me? I'd probably still use them and imagine it would be a great ego boost when they market age 20-30yr old product to a well aged 40 something.

Facebook can rarely recognise me in photos so I can't imagine this gimmick would do any better... Which is odd as I honestly don't resemble a picasso portrait in RL, honest!

In other news sales of balaclavas as quadrupled overnight.

Beat that facial sensory detector

Really?? If probably get some hair dye to cover he grey, some wrinkle cream and a large box of slim fast.

I would probably get quite offended if I got to the till and they were advertising me tenas or something

God no. Can you imagine? Thank you for shopping at Tesco, Revels. Here's a money off voucher for tena lady.

What if your with your partner/kids/in a group??

It would just try and sell me wine if it linked to our club card

Everyone could just whip on a niquab or a mask at the till - that'd confuse the system

Judging by the way I look today, I'd get adverts for frizz ease hair products and eye bag concealer. I'll be flattered if adverts for tampons appeared as I'm well past the menopause!

YANBU. Agree with wearing a mask to confuse the system!

Couldn't care less. I'm either talking to the dds if they're with me or listening to my iPod if they're not! I just want to get the hell out of there asap, I don't have time to be looking at the screen :)

Don't Tesco already store information on you due to club cards etc? I don't understand how facial recognition will make any difference. They can probably already guess your age bracket/demographics.

Don't Tesco already store information on you due to club cards etc?

Only if you sign up for one.

Imagine if it gets your gender wrong! You'd be able to sue for trauma

It wouldn't put me off - I'd be fascinated to see what the hell they offer me ad-wise.

Youtube seem to think I'm a middle aged man, or a middle aged gay woman. Every single time I'm there I'm offered Mature Ladies Dating or somesuch - pictures of slightly rough looking women in badly furnished bedrooms. I'm a middle aged straight woman with some taste in soft furnishings.

I bet they offer me ads for a load of utter shite that I couldn't care less about. Nothing new there, then.

Ugh, YANBU YANBU YANBU and I agree! I hope that if Tesco do introduce this then other supermarkets don't follow suit. I don't really like the way things are going in terms of new intrusive technology being introduced to the public in these ways