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by myself248 2008 days ago
Simply look overhead next time you're paying for something. There's a camera on the cash drawer, a camera watching your face, a camera watching their face, probably a camera watching the whole lane from a wider perspective.

I used to work on point-of-sale equipment, typically fixing scanner-scale or receipt-printer issues, but all the database equipment is in the same back room as the security DVR. The number of cameras in a modern store is staggering, and nowhere are they more concentrated than the checkout area.
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austincheney 2008 days ago
That completely depends on where you shop and your geography. There aren’t that many cameras in Texas or Kuwait.
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Shared404 2007 days ago
> There aren’t that many cameras in Texas

Yeah no. I worked in a restaurant. There was one camera directly on both tills. One camera indirectly on each till. One camera directly in the main queue area and multiple indirectly on the main queue and otherwise covering the remainder of the lobby from multiple angles.

Edit: This is just the front of house stuff. The back of house had it's own complement which I won't detail here for obvious reasons.

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austincheney 2007 days ago
I have worked in restaurants as well. Restaurants are not considered retail points of sale. The primary difference from an accounting perspective is till assignment. Again, your one experience at is not representative of the world as a whole.
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Shared404 2007 days ago
You can also look around any time you go inside a Target or Walmart and see plenty of camera's, plus sometimes some displays showing that there are cameras.

Edit: In addition, we had till assignment at that location. However, there were at least 2 people there at all times who could open the till (Shift lead + assignee), and there was usually more (Managers, other shift leads who were still on shift).

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austincheney 2007 days ago
Yes, they are looking for shop lifters.

You notice you shift ground when your comments are challenged? I also enjoy how a thread a about police and cameras turns into everybody suddenly becoming an expert on retail, accounting, and security because they have been in a store before or once worked a minimum wage job and yet have absolutely no idea how the money is handled.

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Shared404 2007 days ago
> You notice you shift ground when your comments are challenged?

No?

Employees are in the store, and are put under surveillancece along with everyone else.

> yet have absolutely no idea how the money is handled.

No, I definitely know how the money is handled at the restaurant I was at. I don't know the figures for the one individual, but I know how it's handled in general.

If you'd like to email me (it's in my bio) than I can give a run down, but I'm not going to detail something like that in a public forum.

Edit: > everybody suddenly becoming an expert on retail, accounting, and security

I'm not claiming to be an expert. You claimed "There aren’t that many cameras in Texas"

I provided evidence you were wrong. That is all I've done in this thread.

Edit 2: Edit 1 not quite accurate. I also provided an anecdote about what happened to/with a coworker.

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