Keeping An Eye On Customers

WAL MART'S NEW shopping cart have been designed, tested, and the bugs worked out, and are ready for mass implementation. Its just a matter of how many they can produce over the next few months, and which stores will get them first. They have sensors on the handle, and as you place your hands on it to push the cart, it monitors and measures your heart rate, blood pressure, height, weight, body mass muscle index, body temperature, cholestoral, triglycerides, bank account, social security number, I phone number, Facebook password, favorite television shows, work history, and status of mortgage. Well, maybe not all that, but heart rate and blood pressure, yes, Wal Mart is going to begin keeping track of.their stated reason is to help them predict more accurately when somebody is at risk for or is actually about to stroke out or have a heart attack. Precisely how this is going to help anybody, the store, or especially the customer, remains unexplained, unless Wal mart is planning to install an Emergency Room in its stores or start having an ambulance parked right outside the main entrance. On the surface, it sounds sneaky, suspicious, like one of those incremental process you hear about, in which some powerful force takes away a little bit of what you have, then gradually more, and more. I mean, why on Earth would they (Wal mart) want to do this? People can monitor their own vital signs any time they want, with their smart phones and other gadgets. Will retailers and then corporations and businesses start doing this, start collecting information, whatever information they deem worthwhile, from customers about themselves, without the customers really even being aware of it? And why, other than to exploit the customers, to increase sales and profit? You might hear powerful corporate executives sneer and scoff a the very notion, at the apparent paranoia, sanctimoniously protesting that their only concern is to better serve and protect their valued, beloved customers. That, of course, is bullshit. but let them sanctimoniously sneer. The powerful often sneer to cover perfidy. What you begin to wonder about, if you are reflective, contemplative by nature, is the possible extent of future corporate control over the consumer, the individual, the citizen, the country. Consider how omnipresent and powerful the corporate community is now. they practically own and control our political system, paying for the election of their chosen politicians, influencing, even controlling American foreign and domestic policy. how much more power and control over the customer, the citizen, teh culture, teh country do we want to confer upon our corporate masters, who are already our masters, and could quickly become much more so, if we aren't careful.