00:00I've been watching all of this happening, not even noticing all the cameras.
00:05But long-time Walmart shopper Nadine Salzman had no idea what was coming to her Walmart neighborhood market.
00:11They're going to follow patterns and the people.
00:14Using a complicated array of cameras and sensors to watch every move made in the aisles and on the shelves.
00:20All the information is then sent to a giant data center in the back at a rate of three years
00:25worth of music per second.
00:27Over 100 servers in this data center here.
00:30Mike Hanrahan led the conversion of this grocery store to an intelligent retail lab, as Walmart's calling it.
00:36It's the first among the more than 5,000 Walmart stores in the United States to get this artificial intelligence
00:41or AI array of cameras and sensors.
00:44Understanding what's on the shelves, what inventory is on the shelves, how is it laid out?
00:48Is there, you know, maybe spills on the floor? Do we need to open a new checkout for our customers?
00:52Throughout the store, there's also a whole bunch of AI that really just shows off what the technology can do,
00:57like the screen behind me that traces my silhouette.
01:00This is designed to get people asking questions and curious about what's going on.
01:04But all this big brothering from such a big company could be cause for concern.
01:09No, we're not worried about that at all.
01:11I think, you know, privacy is one of the things we're very, very careful to make sure we put into
01:14the, sort of infused into the DNA of this project, if you will.
01:17So we've been very careful, if you look at where the cameras are positioned in the store, they're not anywhere
01:21near the restrooms, they're not near the pharmacy.
01:23Whatever the case, this seems to be the way modern grocery stores are going.
01:27After all, Amazon, which owns Whole Foods, has been experimenting for a few years now with a cashier-less concept
01:33where you can just grab your groceries and go.
01:36The point of this store is really for us to explore, test and learn and figure out what are the
01:40AI tools, what are the AI products that we can scale across the Walmart chain.
01:47And Walmart says the AI interface and all these cameras will be much less cumbersome as they kind of pare
01:52this down and refine the technology and roll it out across the country.
01:56Live in Levittown, Henry Rossoff, Pixel 11 News.
