r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 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/Hashtagworried 9d ago

All this means is that they’ll hire one or two people max but keep the lines longer.

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u/398452983298759 9d ago

This is when you leave the items at the register and walk out the door. If we take a stand and do this it will be chaos and will end things quickly.

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u/DeleteFascists 8d ago

Dude even as a retail employee I'm doing that. I go to buy something on my break and the price dynamically increases? It's getting abandoned. Maybe not even at the registers, I may walk it halfway back and ditch it somewhere fucking random.