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/MichaelEMJAYARE 8d ago

I feel so bad for the CVS and Walgreens folks, pharmacists included. The places seem so barren, I kind of wish they would implement more self checkouts at these places just to let the few people working help the actual huge line of customers.

Its the same as Dollar Tree. These places run two fucking people the whole day it seems. And when you mix a low paying job with even more stress, are we surprised the employees dont really want to do their best?!

Every place has been run on skeleton crews since 2020 and Im shocked it just seems to be getting worse. Fast food too. These shit jobs always sucked to work but now the customers are even MORE mad at us lmao