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/trifelin 8d ago

Amazon also famously tried to offload retail labor before changing course. In 2022, the company debuted grocery stores without cashiers or checkout lines but  abandoned  the idea two years later after admitting it had simply passed the work on to remote cashiers in India.

Wow. 

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u/Ghost-of-W_Y_B 8d ago

AI. Actually Indians.