• Gyromobile@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bodycams dont make sense if you work in a building. Just place cameras in the building.

    The only value i could see is making an offender calm down by making them stare at a camera that is recording them… even though they were already being recorded.

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      1 year ago

      Body Cams probably have microphones, allowing corporations to not also monitor the customers more closely but also their employees and make sure they say the correct things to customers.

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      1 year ago

      this kills two birds with one stone, they can spy and monitor their employees and it also makes them look like they made an effort to deter shoplifting

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        1 year ago

        The thing is that many of the employees at these kind of places shoplift too. I worked in grocery and department stores for years. Some places were worse than others. It turns out the places that pay fairer wages have less employee theft. What a concept.

        The majority of employees just take nearly expired items, and defective boxes, etc. There is so much waste and so much goes into the trash at these places. It’s hard to not be tempted, because it’s mostly just recycling at that point.

        So, I agree that these cameras are there to spy on the retail employees, on top of the customers.