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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
“things have gotten so bad that it has made many people need to steal, so we can’t keep self checkouts open”
Replying to @mrmisses@lemmy.world
They’d rather change their operations than lobby for the poorest to have enough money and not have to steal.
Replying to @DarkCloud@lemmy.world
I thought surely an organization of GROCERS would lobby vociferously for SNAP benefits (food stamps), at a time when onerous work requirements throw people off SNAP and overwhelm local food pantries.
Instead we get a bit of the pearlescent extraction of the meat cylinder via suction: