The grocery store closest to me now has cameras on each self checkout register that are labeled as AI theft protection. In practice what that means is if you hover an item over the bagging area, even for a second, before scanning it it stops you and then plays the video of you “stealing” until the bored teenager making minimum wage comes over and just presses “continue” because they don’t give a shit and the line for the registers is like 10 people long.
It’s that long because despite having like 20 registers designed to be staffed by actual people they rarely open more than one because they fired most employees years ago. So now self checkout is basically the only option, even for people buying a months worth of groceries for a family of 8
I hate the future
AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I prefer self checkout because I am a terrible cashier and keep forgetting to scan things or the wrong things. Did you know that a kilo of carrots is very cheap? And that you can put anything you want on the self scale to print a matching barcode?