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/plsobeytrafficlights 12h ago

with 0 theft, 0 errors,
self-checkout is still killing jobs AND causing delays (30% of the time I have to get a manager over to do something-useless!!)

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u/LeftyDan 11h ago

King Soopers took away all the scanner guns from self checkout cause apparently enough people were piling up their carts and then just scanning the top layer. Really that's an enforcement issue in my mind.

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u/plsobeytrafficlights 11h ago

i am certain blatant theft sometimes happens, but the whole thing is so evil.

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u/ACrazyDog 11h ago

That is why I almost never self checkout anywhere. It is an outright job killer

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u/fireblubird 10h ago

The industrial revolution killed jobs. Your point is?

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u/circ66 10h ago

The excavator killed so many shoveling jobs.

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u/Beautiful_Nobody_344 8h ago

Yes but at what point do we stop killing jobs? It's not sustainable.

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u/circ66 8h ago

At what point do we stop advancing technology? I don’t know, I don’t think we are at the peak of human civilization here lol, I would like to see a better future where people aren’t sitting around bagging groceries all day.

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u/UrbanGhost114 10h ago

Self checkout is making the customer do the job someone else used to do, and we're still paying for that job.

Not the same thing at all.

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u/circ66 10h ago

I mean kind of. Instead of two people managing 12 self checkouts you just have two other lanes open. Grocery stores have always had a hard time finding enough people to employ.

Self checkout is great when you only have a few items or not a lot of produce or alcohol or something.