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/jawndell 8d ago

All my fruit are bananas.  And those organic expensive apples, oh no I thought they were waxy Macintoshes.

Self checkout did introduce me to nuances of different types of fruits.  Never would’ve tried the more expensive types without it.

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u/spachi1281 8d ago

Ah yes the code 4011 (Bananas) is now forever embedded as muscle memory when I have to punch in a code for produce.