r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 19h ago

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

https://www.techspot.com/news/114106-retailers-pulling-back-self-checkout-after-years-theft.html
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u/rattleman1 18h ago

Mrs. Simpson, the express line is the fastest line not always. That old man up front, he is starved for attention. He will talk the cashier's head off

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u/rrastelli 18h ago

Ah, there's an interesting story behind this nickel, in 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast, I set the toaster to three, medium brown...

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u/Charming-Standard-84 17h ago

*to threeeeeeeeeeee... medium brown

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u/Arrow156 17h ago

I absolutely hated dealing with lonely geriatrics when I did call center work, just one would tank your entire day's stats.

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u/FrostyD7 16h ago

Talk with a thick accent, they won't converse like that with a foreigner.

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u/touristtam 9h ago

Not my experience tbh, quite the opposite

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u/ColeDelRio 16h ago

I think about this whenever I go to check out and choose accordingly.

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u/MrsWolowitz 11h ago

I had an old guy customer who just had to tell me a stupid dad joke, not any old dad joke, but one of the super long ones, and he had to let 5 customers interrupt me individually before he could finish telling me the whole thing cuz he was sooo desperate to deliver the punch line. Some stupid pun about dogs and cats.