Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings

I’m waiting for them to close the stores to customers entirely and go to pick up or delivery only.

I know that would kill impulse buying, but I think they might make it up by not needing to police the isles, and no theft.

Service Merchandise did tag pulls and pick up at the register for everything back in the 70s and 80s. That might come back.

Nah, it would be more expensive since they would need to hire more pickers. also would probably loose customers who wouldn’t want someone else picking out their groceries.

Nah, Amazon and the like already do it. Robot pickers are far cheaper than worrying about theft prevention.