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

There are actual GOOD ways to implement self checkout though…

BAD: Me scanning individual items at a grocery store, LARP’ing as a cashier… terrible experience for all… i’m literally doing someone else’s job for free…

GOOD: me throwing my entire basket of purchases into some kind of RFID scanning bin (not sure the exact technology behind it), the screen instantly shows me the list of items and total, and i tap and pay and leave. Actual time saver, and i dont feel like i’m doing a cashier job.

In both cases, it results in a loss of jobs, which sucks… but at least #2 isnt infuriating from a customer POV