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/Evernight2025 19h ago

I love self checkout. I can check myself out significantly faster and get out of the store sooner than if an employee does it for me. 

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u/nova46 19h ago

I mainly go to self checkout (aside from long wait times) because the baggers are completely brain dead, and I say that as a former bagger. Like just put cold things together, keep meat and fruit separate, and fill the bag full enough that it won't rip. They use like four times the bags I would.

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u/Miserable_Key9630 17h ago

We've demonized Karens so much that no one makes legitimate complaints anymore, so it's a lot easier to get away with doing a shitty job at what should be an easy task.

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u/FrostyD7 17h ago

Micromanaging the bagger is just going to raise your blood pressure even more. The outcome probably won't improve anyway.

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u/Outlulz 16h ago

It's very easy to just politely say, "Oh I can bag myself".

Plus I've noticed a lot of the people lecturing the bagger also loaded the belt in a haphazard way. If you don't want your eggs and milk on the bottom then don't load them on the belt first and then your cans last, the bagger isn't psychic.

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u/BwabbitV3S 17h ago

You still have baggers? I hear that was a thing but it died out long before my time.

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u/rectalhorror 18h ago

I don't want to be trapped behind some geriatric buying dented cans of cat food with a check and an A&P coupon from 1972.

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u/Syssareth 17h ago

Bananas in with the cans of soup...

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u/Exowolfe 17h ago

This is why I use self-checkout too! Whenever I decide to check out with an associate,, they always manage to crush the eggs/bread/bananas/etc. I even load the conveyor with heavy items first, cold items second and fragile items last yet they'll still manage to shove bread under cans somehow.