
UK grocery giant Sainsbury's has expanded its live facial recognition surveillance to over 55 stores, with 150 more sites set to be active before Christmas 2026, scanning every customer's face against a national criminal database in real time. This rapid normalisation of biometric surveillance across everyday civilian life marks a significant step toward the kind of total population monitoring that Bible prophecy warns will characterise the end-times global system. Revelation 13 describes a world order in which no one can buy or sell without being identified and controlled — a reality that mass biometric retail networks are now actively constructing.