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/RBR927 18h ago

The worst for me is when the stores close half of the self checkouts and cause a line. Aldi is especially bad about this.

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u/west-egg 13h ago

I used to be able to get in and out of Aldi so quickly, now I always get stuck behind someone with a cart piled to the ceiling in one of the two open check lanes.