LiveCams

[Jimk]

Neat! Bet that not one council run equivalent has cameras up to "help" the customers...?

[R D S]

What would be handy during these times would be livecams that were popular at one time (are they still?).

Placed where there might be a queue, outside the DIY sheds for example (keeping it almost on topic).

Would be nice to have a look before setting off.

[alan_m]

My local tip has introduced cameras so that you can see the size of the queues before you set off.

[Andy Burns]

not cameras, and more for supermarkets than diy sheds when I tried it, but see Crowdless App

[polygonum_on_google]

There are quite a few around - I can see how busy some places are quite easily. But finding the webcams is a nightmare. There are so many sites which are there just to act as clickbait, webcams that haven't worked in years, ones so poor you can't effectively see anything, etc.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

R D S pretended :

+1

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

That seems to work for several local places around here, it gives a percentage of crowdedness and whether they are open. I wonder how they assess the number of customers?

[Andy Burns]

I think the supermarkets already have footfall trackers*, seems crowdless are tapping into that data, plus users of the app can crowdsource some datapoints for them

[*] why do you think the stores offer free wifi, and had (have?) bluetooth beacons ...