Bunnings was reasonably entitled to use AI facial recognition technology to combat crime and staff abuse in its stores, the Administrative Review Tribunal finds.
Shit’s gonna be everywhere tomorrow.
Best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, you’re in one.
Just effectively they have monopolised, have unfair trading practices with small businesses that supply goods, are increasingly changing product for their own brand which then means the “lowest price guaranteed” is pretty null and void because you can’t buy their items anywhere else.
Just noting, I watched this a long time ago, but it left a bad enough taste in my mouth to stop me from going there any more
I had to grab some screws the other day and they literally had ripoffs of Really Useful’s storage units there. They’ve always been a bit shite, but this past year they’ve dived headfirst into shitty chinese marketplace crap.
I stopped shopping at Bunnings after the ABC video here. Feel free to do the same.
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Just effectively they have monopolised, have unfair trading practices with small businesses that supply goods, are increasingly changing product for their own brand which then means the “lowest price guaranteed” is pretty null and void because you can’t buy their items anywhere else.
Just noting, I watched this a long time ago, but it left a bad enough taste in my mouth to stop me from going there any more
Oh, you mean they have just become a supermarket.
I had to grab some screws the other day and they literally had ripoffs of Really Useful’s storage units there. They’ve always been a bit shite, but this past year they’ve dived headfirst into shitty chinese marketplace crap.