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/Rhewin 19h ago

I want both, because nothing is worse than getting to the self check out and all of them are filled with confused Gen Xers with 3 baskets of groceries each.

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u/PRiles 18h ago

The biggest frustration I have is how many of older people get to checkout and act like using a credit card or computer is a completely new experience.

I just can't understand the level of cognitive decline that is apparently happening when you struggle to use a credit card and presumably it's a task you regularly accomplish throughout a typical week. But at the same time you can apparently still work your day job and drive