Boycott Gillette!

[Robot Chicken]

Just found this site: www.boycottgillette.com
True or complete bo**ocks?

Gillette snaps your photo!?!
Hidden cameras in GILLETTE spy shelves take mug shots of people who pick up their products!

Consumers have asked Gillette to stop putting RFID "spy chips" in their products, but Gillette has ignored our concerns.

Don't let Gillette spy on YOU next!

What is RFID?
RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance.

RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco - and they are already being used to spy on people.

The tracking system uses sensors hidden under Gillette shelves to detect when products are picked up.

Whenever a shopper picks up a packet of razor blades from a spy shelf, SNAP! A hidden camera secretly takes a closeup photo of the shopper's face. (And a second photo is snapped at the cash register to make sure the product is paid for!)

 

[SussexSpur]

Just a bunch of stubble-makers...

 

[Strike]

Comedy.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Imagine if they put little cameras on the Top Shelf in newsagents...

 

[dougdeep]

What are razors?

 

[Bluejuice]

There's a worrying number of articles from genuine sites on there.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1001211,00.html

But surely it can't be for real?

 

[Spicy]

I am ok as I shop in Sainsbury!! If I do make the News of the World, however, I was never David Blunkett's nanny!!

 

[readingstockport]

No, it is real. It's being tested as a method of trying to stop shoplifting, bizarely razors are the single most shoplifted item

It is only being trialed in a few places currently but it is for real. Some Radio 4 programs have been reporting on this for months.

 

[Yorkie]

So what happens if you pick them up and then replace them on the shelf.
There are several sorts of Gillette blades and I can never remember exactly which one it is Ned uses (especially if I am doing the shopping after work and am tired) so I may pick up several and replace them until I see the right one.

 

[Beach Hut]

So what happens if you pick them up and then replace them on the shelf.
There are several sorts of Gillette blades and I can never remember exactly which one it is Ned uses (especially if I am doing the shopping after work and am tired) so I may pick up several and replace them until I see the right one.

You get a multi-Yorkie photo shoot

 

[Dover]

I did this before, last year!

 

[Yorkie]

You get a multi-Yorkie photo shoot

That'll teach them and probably put them off

 

[Bluejuice]

The reason they are the most shoplifted item in Britain is down to the ludicrous price we are charged for them.

Thankfully I only ever buy mine on the continent or off ebay (which is a tip for Mach 3 buyers everywher, take note, it's a damned site cheaper).

I want to boycot Gillette for their history of animal cruelty but once you've tried MAch 3 there really is nothing else like it, annoyingly

 

[beorhthelm]

this is nice laugh for a sunday morning. The RFID bit is true, their are supposed to replace bar codes. No real privacy/spying issues here as their range is ~1m. But using it for anti-theft? It wouldnt work. You'd have to move away 1 meter from the shelve before it would trigger. And why not just have a permenant camara? How do you distinguish between those purchased and those stuffed up a jumper round the corner?

 

[readingstockport]

I don't know beerhthelm but this photograph thing has been discussed on you and yours and at least one of the science programs on radio 4 over the past few months. It is for real. Not in all shops but there are some out there trailing it apparently.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

A minute camera.That must cost more than the razor blades.

 

[Bluejuice]

I doubt it.

The hubble telescope costs less than a pack of Mach 3

 

[Rangdo]

But surely it can't be for real?

I think the spy camera stuff is just scare-mongering but RFID technology is definately coming soon.

Check this out:

http://www.future-store.org/

 

[Cian]

No, it is real. It's being tested as a method of trying to stop shoplifting, bizarely razors are the single most shoplifted item

Followed by coffee, apparently.

I remember in Manchester the Spar stores had the razor blades, coffee, cigarettes and booze behind the counter, as they were the most nicked stuff.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Jack Daniels and freeze dried coffee. Apparently coffee is used by heroin addicts who shoot up with it because caffiene is high doses has the same effect.

Weird.