• virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The Australian Retailers Association said one in every four of these shoplifting incidents involved “abuse or assault” against workers.

    In an ongoing trial, staff at 30 Coles stores across Australia are being fitted with cameras to only be turned on in “threatening situations”.

    The title sounds misleading, from the text of the article it’s more of a panic button to alert emergency services than it is passive monitoring of employees or customers.

    • MostlyMute@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not a panic button. As far as I’ve heard it’s just a camera that only has a short recording time. If someone is benign abusive, you press the button to make it start recording. Either the abusive person will back down at the obvious camera recording them, or they’ll get more aggressive, but at least then you’ve got footage of them. The overhead store cameras are really crap quality.