Kmart Australia has “scared” hundreds of shoppers by introducing a major change to selected stores.
A Melbourne shopper noticed that department store Westfield Southland had installed a digital sign in changing rooms to detect products being tested.
At that time, the customer was confused by the new technology and shared an image on Reddit of the screen in question, which showed images of the identified clothing.
“Kmart can now detect the clothes you try on,” the caption read.
The post quickly caught the attention of paranoid shoppers who immediately disapproved of the displays.
‘Do they have to be scanned or does this happen automatically? “I don’t want anything scanning my ass in a locker room,” one wrote.
“My paranoid ass would have been scared shitless,” said another.
A Melbourne shopper noticed that Westfield Southland department store had a digital sign installed in the changing rooms. The latest technology detects products introduced into fitting rooms by scanning barcodes (pictured)
However, some pointed out that buyers have nothing to worry about since cameras are not used.
‘This is quite common around the world, they just have RFID tags and when you walk into the room those tags are scanned. “RFID doesn’t need a camera or anything, so they don’t look at you, it’s basically just an advanced barcode,” one wrote.
“The Uniqlo stores here have that too,” said another.
The latest technology detects products introduced into fitting rooms by scanning barcodes.
A Kmart Australia spokesperson told FEMAIL only one store is trialling the new technology.
A Kmart Australia spokesperson told FEMAIL that only one store is trialling the new technology.
“Kmart Southland is currently participating in a new trial of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology in our fitting rooms, which scans our clothing products upon entry and then displays them to the customer,” the spokesperson said.
‘No cameras or photographs are used with this technology.
“RFID technology is used globally and is not new to Kmart, as it is already used in other areas of our stores, including our Tory robot, which uses RFID technology to count our inventory daily and improve the shopping experience of our customers. customers”.