Thursday, October 17, 2013

Snack Food Makers Introducing Store Shelves to Photograph, Identify You (MDLZ)

From the Washington Post's The Switch blog:
This snack-food corporation has a creepy plan to watch you in the grocery store
It's not quite "Minority Report"-levels of creepiness, but it's getting there.

Mondelez International, whose properties include Chips Ahoy, Nabisco, Ritz and other high-profile snack brands, says it's planning to debut a grocery shelf in 2015 that comes equipped with sensors to determine the age and sex of passing customers....MORE
Here's more at the The Wall Street Journal.  

While Mondelez (née Kraft) may have questions regarding age and sex they already know one thing for certain:
The people they're snooping on will be fat.