Its eyeballs tracked my movement as it slid out of the way to avoid me. Stop&Shop has started to use a 'bot called Marty to patrol the floor, and Marty freaked me out. It looks like an abandoned Cylon, if someone had super-glued massive googly eyes on it. Marty's blue neon lights blinked as I walked past. I gave it another look, wondering whose job it will take over and what data it is collecting. Yet another AI intrusion in the world, cloaked in cute. This is how it begins ... #smallstories