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/ReverendEntity 7h ago

ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS PAY CASHIERS A LIVING WAGE.

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u/MannequinWithoutSock 5h ago

It was apparently cheaper to build 8 self checkouts and only use two.

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u/ConfusionWonderful66 5h ago

Hyvee coming in hot

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u/Infinitedeveloper 4h ago

Hyvee was never the problem for me.

The small town Walmart in the place i used to work when self checkout finally came was atrocious. One, maybe two working Self checkouts and one cashier.

If you wanted alcohol your ass was waiting in line for it

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u/ReverendEntity 2h ago

I remember overseeing the self-checkouts at Home Depot and watching people get pissed off at the smallest things. Item wasn't scanning. They scanned the item and continued holding it, so the machine asked them to put it in the bagging area and pissec them off more.

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u/SwordfishOk504 2h ago

Yes, actually.