Grocery Outlet Bargain Market is deploying #AI facial recognition in their stores.

It’s used for profiling.

“The system takes images of customers and runs them against a “watchlist,” a database of people who have previously been identified after “causing harm in some way,” said Chris Ochs, who works at SAFR at RealNetworks, the AI company that created SAFR Guard, the security system being used at Grocery Outlet. If there is a match, a phone notification is sent to the retailer using the system.”

#california #sfba #surveillance

https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-grocery-outlet-facial-recognition/