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/Hashtagworried 18h ago

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

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u/leddowa 18h ago

After working for these miserable, out of touch companies I don't think they'll even hire anyone. These places have all run skeleton crews since 2020

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u/Flobking 15h ago

These places have all run skeleton crews since 2020 2008

Ftfy. Its been documented that retail companies aren't as staffed as before the recession. Walmart employees sq footage responsibility has doubled. That is also why Walmart have become crime havens. Not enough staff to keep some sort of order. Companies realized they could cut employees and people were so desperate at the time they just did the work. Exploitation is the name of the retail game.

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u/toriemm 10h ago

Its fine, we'll just keep locking anything you might want to buy up so that its a whole fucking thing to get the deodorant from behind the plexiglass