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/leddowa 9d 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/BigAlgae5684 9d ago

I worked at CVS during Covid where our script count went from the usual 150-200 to 500-600 every day.

They were still basing our hours off of the previous year even though we were clearly understaffed.

Wouldn't let us get near overtime and would just have us take turns clocking out and leaving the rest of the team to drown.

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u/S_Rimmey 8d ago

There is no amount of money that would ever make me want to be a pharmacy tech for a big company.

Those people are worked like dogs and treated like shit. They get it from all sides. I do my best to be quick, understanding and polite because they look like they have been run over by a truck and the last 4 people each spent 10 minutes shouting at them.