Companies Should Stores To Use Cell Phone Tracking

Going to a shopping store is not the only place a consumer will be tracked and watched. Unfortunately, in the new era another level of eavesdropping has manifest through Smart television for American society. For instance Retail stores are spying on you in the stores and now have the capability to track your every move online. When you are at home you Smart television listens to your conversations and records what you watch. Consumer tracking may consist of video camera recording your license plate, bank information, credit score and eavesdropping through your television (Mosser, 2013).

It is believed that consumers will be able to walk into a store, receive a welcome from a computer of some sort who will be able to greet you by name wherein you will be able to walk through isles using your cellphone to scan items which will be packed by robots and by the time you get home, an autonomous vehicle or drone will have already delivered your groceries to your door-step. In Seattle, Amazon has already implemented a process where a customer can enter a store by using a cellphone, place item in their cart and upon leaving the store, they will have already been charged for the items placed in the cart; Amazon calls it Amazon-Go, a store with no cashiers or cash registers. Amazon is currently in the testing phase of this technology and is currently available to Amazon Employees. Will Amazon say goodbye to Whole Foods employees? For now, that’s not the plan. According to Amazon, they will continue to use cashiers and stick the customary shopping experience. However, with this day and age and the way technology evolves, it is not set in stone. Besides who uses stone

The city council is considering banning the use of cellphones in privately owned businesses at the discretion of the owner, subjecting those who violate with a fine. I stand against them on this issue. Although the proposal entails benefits,, it violates the rights of the consumer, and many businesses would not even institute such a policy.

Although installing GPS on every cart may seem cost inefficient, the benefits of GPS tracking out weight the worst case scenario of a cart being stolen which may cost anywhere from

An estimated 91% of American adults own or have used cell phones. (#8) When people buy cell phones, most of the time they have to sign a contract or read terms and conditions. When the phone is purchased it likely has a good amount of the person’s information on it, and is used for social networking and communicating with others. When the person buying the phone accepts the terms and conditions, they basically sign their privacy rights away. Sure not anyone can come up to them and go through their phone, but the phone company can access their info if the right was slipped in the terms and conditions, and there isn’t really anything stopping them from doing that. (#11) So people can complain that their privacy is gone, but they did sign away their right with greed. Although a cell phone has almost become a need in today’s society, it is still only viewed as a want. Therefore, no one has to purchase a cell phone. There aren’t really any laws saying that the

Some people believe that cell phone tracking is an invasion of privacy, yet they often choose to keep their cellular devices on. Why all the fuss though? People are tracked on a daily basis anyways through computers, tablets, and other cameras. If cell phone tracking is bothersome, consumers can simply turn them off when entering a store. However, they will be missing out on all of the great benefits that come with leaving it on. Why choose to miss out on great deals, bargains, and money-savers?

We live in a society where we are watched constantly by social media, twitter, employers and even shopping surveillance cameras. Although each outlet has its different uses for watching, there are pros and cons. Social media may share life styles or events with users with just a touch of a button or click of a mouse. Twitter updates the user with instant news about certain individuals or celebrities and what is trending. An employer keeps a watchful eye on a new employee to make sure they are the right fit for the company or can also watch to make sure their assets are secure. Surveillance is mostly thought of as monitoring assets, but what about the true assets it monitors, the consumer at a store. Consumers are the bread and butter of the store, without the consumer there are no sales, and if no sales then there would be no store. I refute the claim that the retail anthropologists’ surveillance of consumers is manipulative or unethical. In fact, I think the surveillance of consumers can help both the retailer and the consumer. Surveillance can provide an overall good shopping experience for both consumer and retailer. The surveillance videos can show which products the consumer wants and buys, it can help the retailer place good products in good organizational areas, and provide not only the consumer, but the retailer with a good overall shopping experience.

In my opinion, in order for police to monitor your cellphone they would have to have a search warrant. Today there are cops that do not follow the law. For example, some cops don’t

Store directors, associate store directors, department managers, leads, or specialists can use their personal cell phones for business anywhere in the store.

I believe that the most beneficial use of a prepaid cell phone is for people’s convenience in a way where it is an affordable alternative for those who can’t afford a phone on contract with phone companies such as Verizon, AT&T T-Mobile, or Sprint. Prepaid cellphones give people the opportunity to keep in contact with their friends and family daily. It is also beneficial for visitors or tourist because a prepaid cell phone can be a real convenience for them when they first come to a country and decided that they will need a phone number so that they can communicate with their friends and family from their country without paying a lot of money for international calls. Even though prepaid phones are not often mentioned nowadays, they will always have a significant beneficial use to people in this society and will always be around.

I do believe that businesses have the right to restrict phone usage, however I don't agree with it completely. I don't see the problem with using your phone if it isn't bothering anyone. When you go out to eat you expect to enjoy your time there, and if you want to spend that time on your phone that's up to you. Although, there is a point where you can be disturbing others and I believe that is where restrictions should apply. Some things should just be common courtesy, such as putting your phone on silent at the movies or turning the flash off if you like to take pictures of your food. However, some people are rude. For instance, once I went to the movies and this woman was on the phone, speaking so loud I could not

Karla Givens wrote about “ High-Tech Tools help stores- and shoppers.”In the article she wrote about websites “tracking you.”

Many department stores utilize surveillance mechanisms to obtain information from their shoppers. Stephanie Clifford in collaboration with Quentin Hardy, writer for The New York Times, released an article titled Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell, which illustrates a real life example of the benefits of corporate surveillance. Nordstrom, began to develop a software which allowed for them track their customers while they are shopping; the reason behind such software was because, “Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors” (Clifford and Hardy). The reasoning behind Nordstrom is great, by developing a software that gathers “data about in-store shoppers’ behavior

There is no doubt that cell phones, in this day and age, are a huge part of most Americans’ everyday life. Cell phones hold an abundance of various personal information and keepsakes such as pictures, videos, messages, and much more. With the extensive amount of information that these mobile devices hold, they may sometimes be helpful to reveal and trace criminal activity. Access to evidence of criminal activity can be very valuable to the police, but this access generally requires a warrant. The clear difference between cell phones and regular physical items that are subject to search and seizure in an arrest does not allow the usual “search incident to arrest” doctrine to be enforced with mobile devices (“Riley v. California”).

Cell phones have become more and more popular in the United States as years have gone by. They are now nothing like how they were years ago. Since cellular devices have evolved employees have become able to do increasingly more jobs on the phones. For example, during work employees are now able to check social media, listen to music, take quality photos, and play games all on a small mobile device. Because of the evolution of the phone, employees have certainly become less effective. Cell phone usage has disturbed the work place because it decreases productivity, endangers employees, and lowers quality of work.