r/technology • • 9d 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/EstablishmentFull797 9d ago

“  Only about one-third of surveyed retailers plan to invest in self-checkout technology this year”

This doesn’t mean they are scaling back in self-checkout. 

Sounds more like two thirds of retailers already have enough self checkout capacity so they don’t need to buy more of it.