Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them
thurstylark@lemm.ee 10 months agoThat and age-gated items like alcohol and [some] medicines. If the one human managing the self-checkout horde is busy, you’re just left waiting.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Somehow Costco has managed this well (as has Sam’s Club).
Costco always has sufficient ID checkers in the self-checkout, and Sam’s checks your ID as you leave the store if you do the Scan-as-You-Go feature. Q
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Maeve@kbin.social 10 months ago
They really need to just pay for extra cashiers. Any can’t they also have “express lanes?”
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Exactly. Seems Costco and Sam’s do just that.