At a tourist site in China, they have installed digital timers on top of
the stores. It displays a green “empty” or a red timer showing how
long you have been in.
This is supposedly to cope with a higher amount of tourists at this
particular site. Despite surveillance not being the reason, users and
people on the internet are saying it does feel like it.
One person asked, “Why not just use the money to build more
toilets?”
A user said she found it embarrassing. Like she was being
monitored.