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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
Replying to @BillionaireStew@lemmy.world
Didn’t realize self checkouts were such a divisive topic, like wtf I’ll take that any day of the week over standing in line behind people who have seemingly never been to a supermarket before and their shit is still standing there all over the place while the cashier is already scanning my products. I get that it keeps someone employed but I think the answer to that is better welfare, not sticking to the old ways just so someone gets to do menial shit for a living.
Replying to @recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
I’m honestly surprised anyone likes self checkout. It’s such a pain in the ass. Almost always have some sort of error that I need to wait to be rescued from.
Maybe it’s different where you are from, but where I am from human cashiers are way more efficient.
Replying to @chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
The ones that need to match the weight of the product are absolutely horrible and full of errors.
The ones that only need to scan barcodes are ok-ish. Sometimes you can run into weird situations, like I managed to find a product that had two barcodes for some reason, and I scanned the “wrong” one and it confused the machines. Or there was a product that printed their barcode so tiny that the machine couldn’t scan it. But those are rare.
The fun part is when you try to buy any alcohol because over here they need to call a human to confirm you’re an adult.