Smile for the camera

The latest at the Tummy Temple is being on the screen. You like selfies, and then the Tummy Temple is where you want to buy your grub.

Well now instead of just picking up stuff and dropping it into your rolling wire cart and then waiting in line for the conveyor belt to be priced and bagged by a person you paid your dough, you, the customer, is required to do all the work of scanning your items.

There is an option to go back to the conveyor belt and wait for the attendant to process your food needs or go to the scanning stations and run each item across the scanner bed then place them in the ‘bagging area’.

So picking up the handheld scanner with the red laser beam to process your selections isn’t that much of a hassle. Just a technology change but now they have added cameras.

Now as the scanner points to the electronic digital scanning station and waits for the screen to allow the process to proceed to purchase and go, there is a camera.

Better yet, there is a screen showing your every move while ‘checking out’. Is this the FBI or CIA doing face recognitions on possible terrorist who are stuffy frozen chicken wings into their pockets?

The Tummy Temple has a vast variety of product for the congregation to select from and their database must be massive, but maybe the ordinary family just wants to come in and get their diapers, cereal, milk, and wine without all the suspicion of surveillance cameras.

Being one who might look suspicious or abnormal, I’ve enjoyed the security game. Trailing the security personal following through the aisles into every tight passage and dead-end.

So now the Tummy Temple wants to watch the checkout. Since my purchase of adult beverages require an associate to scan a special barcode to allow them to punch into the screen that I’m older than dirt we take a selfies to whoever is watching this stuff. Maybe a movie or YouTube can be made out of this.

Still it is just another sign of being observed without your permission.