Comment on Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech

TwoGems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sorry but I don’t think that makes very much sense.

  Retail theft is a real problem for a company’s bottom line. Enough so that Target is pulling out of San Francisco, IIRC. And self-checkout is one of the easiest ways to pull it off.

  Why would a corporation frantically seeking quarter over quarter growth spend money to “prove a point” about control?

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  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Enough so that Target is pulling out of San Francisco, IIRC

    businessinsider.com/target-closing-stores-due-to-…

    ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. They’re blaming theft, but that’s not it. Theft might be a part of it, but the stats nearby contradict that. We don’t have access to their internal theft metrics, but the city data doesn’t pan out. When there are stores (mission district) that have higher theft and are staying open, then is it really theft?

    Or is it poor retail performance since WFH is the new king and people live in the suburbs more than in the city. When continue to order online more and more instead of shop at a physical store.

    Theft is an easy way to blame other people without providing evidence. It’s not the CEO’s failure to adapt to changing market conditions, it’s the poors! It’s their fault! /s

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    • negativeyoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This.

      Both Walmarts in Portland OR closed a few months ago. Good fucking riddance

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  • druidjaidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How about this. If self check out is a problem go back to paying cashiers.

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    • lemonnade@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No way. I don’t need someone to frantically scan my items while I barely manage to bag them in time.

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      • Fraylor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then they need to regire baggers, too.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll never understand why people like you care about a mega corporation’s bottom line. The executives are still making billions, while keeping their employees as poor as they can get away with.

    Target will survive without San Francisco. Even if they fail, the top dogs will just liquidate and take a fat paycheck home, enough for a 100+ employees to retire and live off of for the rest of their lives, and they’ll just pocket it all. Fuck 'em.

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t give a flying fuck about a megacorporation’s bottom line. Fuck Walmart. Fuck Target. I don’t disagree with a single thing you just said.

      I just didn’t think it made any sense to say that they made an expensive change to their self-checkout just to “prove a point” about controlling people.

      But apparently no one knows how to read. And once some of you saw downvotes you knew everything you needed to know about what I think.

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  • floppade@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So is CEO greed though. And they could choose to use that money to balance their budget, not ruin my experience of being out and about.

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, they absolutely could and should. That wasn’t my point. I just don’t think it makes any sense to say that they made the change to their self checkout to “prove a point” about controlling people.

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• stillwater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hostile to the point of attacking the employees?

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