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

You still need employees to help hapless customers and flag tech problems, the security cameras from above to dissuade theft, and someone to man the monitors of said cameras. They were banking on full human replacement. Can’t wait for our AI future with a store devoid of employees where they drop a net from the ceiling and pepper spray me because I forgot my eggplant was the organic price.

They are banking on the majority being honest.

We’ll see honest people are when AI has taken their job and they need to eat.