Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 9 months agoI stopped shopping at a local grocery store because the damn self checkout made you scan everything and place it on the stupid scale. I couldn’t put my own personal bag there as it would upset the whole system. It ended up wasting more of my time. If they want self checkout to be used more they need to understand someone isn’t stealing and paying at the same time. Sure something might get missed on accident, but I’m not scanning $100 in groceries to steal some arbitrary amount.
Also, Home Depot took self checkout to the extreme and it sucks ass for it.
Breezy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No no no, people definitely steal and pay at the same time. I was guilty or doing so when i was younger and more stupid. Older self checkout wear so easy to scam by tag swapping or only scanning some of my items and not others.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You were going to steal in the first place. This doesn’t change anything. Ethically ambiguous people “stealing” by purchasing something at a slightly lower price doesn’t equate to a company therefore making it so I have to use weighted systems. It’s part of the cost of doing business. Odds are good they still broke even after profit margin. Im not going to argue any of that, but it doesn’t matter. I shouldn’t have to put my stuff as I’m scanning on a scale. Either trust me to ring it up correctly or put the proper amount of people on checkout.