Embodiments of the present invention are directed to vision analysis associated with venue POS stations. In an embodiment, the invention is a method for imaging-based vision analysis at a POS station with an ingress and egress regions, and a direction of travel from the ingress region to the egress region. In the embodiment the method includes detecting movement of a user through the POS station in the direction of travel and generating an event identifier responsive to (i) the detecting the movement of the user through the POS station in the direction of travel and (ii) not processing a decode of a barcode associated with an item.