Source: SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Grocery Outlet is rolling out facial recognition at Bay Area entrances, capturing and storing biometric data on customers with minimal regulatory oversight. The technology moves beyond loss prevention into persistent profiling—a capability available to private retailers even in San Francisco, where the city has restricted government use of facial recognition. The deployment tests whether consumer pushback or privacy legislation will catch up before the infrastructure becomes standard across grocery chains.