[roordan]

Technology is ever advancing and improving and I’m sure eventually we will get there. Or we’re already there, like I said, I’m out of the loop for past few years so maybe some amazing improvements have happened.

Another inhibitor of this technology is how cheap/behind retail companies tend to be.

We want advanced analytics. Ok, we can set up these cameras and the like which will send everything to our servers for computation.

We only have dsl at the store. Ok, then we need to set up a server(s) at the store.

We only want to spend 2k max per store, and use sub-sub-sub contractors to actually set up this equipment.

All of this pain and trouble scared me away from working with retail focused companies for past few years.

[bsenftner]

This. I am a lead developer in a leading FR company, and this comment right here hits the nail on the head. Every one of your points is an active issue with retail. It's a pain in the asshole.