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California Grocery Stores Use Facial Recognition Technology To Combat Theft
California Grocery Stores Use Facial Recognition Technology To Combat Theft
Via American Greatness,
Faced with a shoplifting epidemic that has battered California retailers for years, Grocery Outlet is fighting back with technology.
Customers are not thrilled about it.
The Emeryville-based discount grocery chain has begun installing facial recognition software called SAFR at a handful of Bay Area stores, including its Pleasant Hill “Bargain Market” location, CBS News San Francisco reported.
Customers walking through the doors will find signs warning them the system is in use, a disclosure the company says is meant to keep...
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Britain Is Pricing Its Factories Into Oblivion
Britain Is Pricing Its Factories Into Oblivion
Authored by Ted Newson via CapX,
At its peak, Britain was known as the workshop of the world. Sheffield produced high-quality steel, Manchester still had a strong textiles sector and the West Midlands was world-renowned for its cars. Glasgow, Sunderland and Newcastle were shipbuilding hubs, Stoke-on-Trent produced ceramics.
Cities around Britain provided steady employment for skilled tradespeople, keeping communities together and wealth distributed around the country. In the 1980s and ’90s, this was underpinned by looser employment regulations and strong energy security through North Sea oil and gas....
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May 13, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Bessent's "Suffocating" Iranian Regime Strategy Materializes In Kharg Island Satellite Imagery
Bessent's "Suffocating" Iranian Regime Strategy Materializes In Kharg Island Satellite Imagery
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's description of "suffocating" the Iranian regime through economic and financial pressure, whether via sanctions or the US military blockade of the world's most critical maritime chokepoint, now appears to be showing up in the data.
New geospatial intelligence indicates that Iran's main crude export terminal has gone quiet, while a separate report suggests seaborne oil exports have effectively been halted for the past month.
The first report comes from Bloomberg, which cited European satellite imagery showing a...
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Aug 5, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Half Of Foreign Welfare Recipients In Spain Are Moroccan
Half Of Foreign Welfare Recipients In Spain Are Moroccan
Via Remix News,
Nearly half of all foreign nationals receiving Spain’s Minimum Living Income (IMV) are Moroccan, according to previously unpublished figures obtained by The Objective through a transparency request.
The National Social Security Institute recorded 139,446 foreign recipients of the benefit, including 69,517 Moroccan nationals.
Foreigners therefore account for approximately half of the nearly 280,000 registered recipients, while Moroccans represent almost 50 percent of the foreign total.
The figures provide the first official nationality-by-nationality breakdown of foreign IMV recipients.
Public statistics had previously distinguished only between Spanish...
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