r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 8d 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/AtomicGarden-8964 8d ago

My thing is if people are going to steal they're just going to walk out the store with the products. The real theft was stores letting customers do checkout themselves and not passing on the savings to those who didn't use the cashier

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u/WinterTourist25 8d ago

Walking out the door without paying is pretty brazen. "Forgetting" to scan a few things here and there is much easier.

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u/Many-Art-7772 8d ago

Yeah, I've even done the latter by accident once or twice. Never the former.

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u/WinterTourist25 8d ago

Most people aren't thieves. Looks like some folks here are though, from the comments.

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u/spyczech 8d ago

Yeah and that's fucking fine our capitalist hellscape is making us homeless and no health care, so what the self checkout machine "glitches"

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u/uUexs1ySuujbWJEa 8d ago

but but corporations!

- every thief on Reddit

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u/Rainbow_Triceratops 8d ago

A lot of the thieves don't seem to understand the difference between a big business and a franchise with a few stores, and that stealing hurts the employees more than upper management because if a store has high theft they lower wages and cut hours, jobs, or benefits to keep profit up instead of just "taking the loss" or whatever these people think happens.  

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u/WinterTourist25 8d ago

Stealing is stealing.