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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
I always, within reason, try to check out with a person and use cash.
Replying to @82tenterstreet@lemmy.world
Until you realise they closed all but one staffed checkout.
Replying to @ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk
Do it anyway. And complain to the management and the head office if that one staffed checkout is overburdened and you have to wait an unreasonable amount of time.
Replying to @nyan@lemmy.cafe
And they will point to the self checkouts. The better idea is not to use them or go to stores that have them, but at least in my area its the majority of places. However this seems like the old argument of forcing someone to pump gas for you to save someone’s job. Very few complain about putting gas in their own vehicles.
Replying to @GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
You point out up front that self-checkouts are not a substitute and ideally list the ways that theirs are broken. In the case of the local management, talk over them if you have to in order to make your point.
And yes, I complain about having to punp gas, too.