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Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings
www.techspot.com/news/114106-retailers-pulling-back-self-checkout-after-years-theft.htmlemoji1
Retailers within the same chain seem to have different policies on how many check outs are staffed.
I’m in Australia and buy our groceries from woolworths.
There’s one I go past on my way home and there’s very rarely any proper checkouts manned. There’s usually one “express” at which you can only buy 12 items or something, but there’s usually several people queued there.
The other one where we go to do our weekly shop always has several proper checkouts manned. Usually when there’s more than 1 person being scanned and 1 waiting they will call over the PA to get another staff member to open another lane.
IDK who’s decision it is or what strategy they follow to decide which stores will do check outs what way.
Replying to @im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
Grocieres…from Woolworth? Funny. Here (Germany) it’s just a horribly shitty dollar-store without any food.
Replying to @Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
The Australian Woolworth is a totally unrelated company.
In Germany the Woolworth GmbH was originally founded by the American Woolworth, but then sold off. The American one essentially died later.
Replying to @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
I had no idea. Although I fondly remember it being cool and then suddenly becoming absolute dogshit.
Thanks for educating me.
Replying to @Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
I also remember my mom driving over the boarder to shop there when I was a child, so that checks out for me
Replying to @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
At least you have the good kind of Woolworth it seems 😁