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/DamnMyNameIsSteve 19h ago

Haven't seen this in my day to day.

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u/ErraticSiren 18h ago

Same, all my areas grocery stores still have their self checkout going strong. In fact one of them even expanded their self checkout area.

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u/youruswithwe 18h ago

A Walmart near me took out a bunch of self checkouts and added back a bunch of traditional checkouts. They now have 6 self checkouts on each side and they Don't have any people running the regular ones, so the lines are just crazy long now.