Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by eej71 on Monday September 22, 2025 @07:46AM
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Kmart in Australia is best thought of as a fork from the original. The original in the United States is effectively defunct now.
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Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by bombcar on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:15AM
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This is more common than you’d think - often subsidiaries are distinct enough that the Canadian or Australian version survives the US parent’s bankruptcy.
And sometimes it’s just a different store that licensed the name for 100 years.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by eej71 on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:46AM
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My other favorite example of this is the A&W Restaurants which in the states was a bit more of a fast food establishment. It was never that successful, but you'd see them every so often. Gone now in the states, but I believe its Canadian successor is still going strong.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by natebc on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:52AM
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There's still quite a few A&W restaurants around in the US though they are rareish.
https://awrestaurants.com/locations-list/
400+ according to their wikipedia entry.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by bombcar on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:37AM
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A&W is exceptionally rural now, and I'm not 100% sure why - it's a weird combination of fast food (drive thru) + waitress/sit down ordering that doesn't really exist anywhere else (kind of how there are a few carhop/drive UP restaurants that still exist).
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by Washuu on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:25AM
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There are bunch of A&W restaurants in Okinawa as well and as far as I know, it's popular.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by lupusreal on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:36AM
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The Canadian A&Ws are very good as far as fast food burger joints go. The American version is quite shitty though, last time I saw one years ago.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by jasona123 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:22AM
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Canadian A&W is expensive though - like "only really go for a treat" expensive. Made McDicks somehow more reasonable.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by Klonoar on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:15AM
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Australia also still has E.B Games.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by JackFr on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:55AM
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On a recent visit to the UK (from the US) I briefly thought I was in an alternate universe because their TJ Maxx stores are virtually identical but inexplicably called TK Maxx.
(Well, not quite inexplicably. Wikipedia cleared it up for me.)