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Not at walmart, but one of our supermarkets in town has two self-checkouts. I tried them a few times, and they were so f-ed up that I gave up on them. One time, the machine did not accept any cash, but was stuck in the menu choice “pay by cash” without a “back” button. So I took my stuff to the normal checkout, which had the problem that my steaks had already been scanned. Solution: leave a bag of 20+ Euro meat at the checkout, and get a new one from the butchers shop.

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lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

normal checkout, which had the problem that my steaks had already been scanned

Lol, that meat had a serial number.

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- Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, if I get if from the butcher inside the supermarket, it has a “local” EAN13 barcode that “costs” the total of all parts I got.
  
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  - lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m aware of those but I thought they only encode the cost. Like, if I were in your situation and went to scan a second time it would work.
    
    Sounds like a badly configured system IMO. It shouldn’t take things out of stock or prevent rescanning until the sale was actually made (the customer paid).
    
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- pewnit@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Meat heist is unironically a real thing
  
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  - mwguy@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We hang cattle rustlers round here…
    
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atetulo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Dang, from one ‘local’ establishment to the next.

And I bet you’re paying more, too.

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